SPPO Guidance List

The list of resources contained in this Excel spreadsheet includes all “guidance documents” issued by the Student Privacy Policy Office (SPPO). As a general matter, guidance documents are statements of general applicability, intended to have future effect on the behavior of regulated parties, that set forth a policy on a statutory, regulatory, or technical issue; or an interpretation of a statute or regulation. The guidance documents issued by SPPO address requirements of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (PPRA), and the Armed Forces Recruiter Access to Students and Student Recruiting Information provisions under Section 8528 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. This list of SPPO guidance documents only includes correspondence with individual persons or entities and materials pertaining to SPPO enforcement actions if those documents constitute statements of general applicability intended to have future effect on the behavior of regulated parties. You will find a full list of all SPPO resources at https://studentprivacy.ed.gov/resources.