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'''Family Education Rights & Privacy Act (FERPA)Bold text'''  This act is also known as the Buckley amendment as Sen. James Buckley of New York introduced the language in 1974.  His intent was twofold: to ensure that parents and adult students could correct errors and address damaging material in the records file and to ensure that schools would develop and follow policies  guaranteeing access to the records by the parent or student.  The bill tied participation in federal funding to schools to encourage compliance.  Education records were defined as those that pertain directly to the student and maintained by the institution.  
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'''Family Education Rights & Privacy Act (FERPA)'''  This act is also known as the Buckley amendment as Sen. James Buckley of New York introduced the language in 1974.  His intent was twofold: to ensure that parents and adult students could correct errors and address damaging material in the records file and to ensure that schools would develop and follow policies  guaranteeing access to the records by the parent or student. It also provided protection of information in the education record as it required that the student or parent give consent for information from the record to be disclosed.  The bill tied participation in federal funding to schools to encourage compliance.  Education records were defined as those that pertain directly to the student and maintained by the institution (1). Personal information protected by the act includes:
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* identifying data
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* academic work completed
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* level of achievement (grades, standardized test scores, aptitude test results, interest inventories)
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* attendance data
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* health data
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* family background
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* teacher or counselor ratings
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* verbal reports of serious or recurrent behavior patterns (2)
  
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In 1992, an amendment clarified that police records containing the names of students were not protected by the act. This exclusion of police records is important as colleges and universities have tried to use FERPA to deny journalists access to records that would clearly be in the public domain outside of academia, including for such issues as:
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References
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* parking tickets issued to athletes
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(1) ''Student Press Law Center'' 'White Paper - FERPA and Access to Public Records' ferpa_wp.pdf
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* minutes of public meetings
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* findings or investigations into academic dishonesty
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* names of individuals receiving tickets to university sporting events
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None of these examples are related to FERPA or comply with its intent. (1)
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Revision as of 01:31, 15 November 2013

Family Education Rights & Privacy Act (FERPA) This act is also known as the Buckley amendment as Sen. James Buckley of New York introduced the language in 1974. His intent was twofold: to ensure that parents and adult students could correct errors and address damaging material in the records file and to ensure that schools would develop and follow policies guaranteeing access to the records by the parent or student. It also provided protection of information in the education record as it required that the student or parent give consent for information from the record to be disclosed. The bill tied participation in federal funding to schools to encourage compliance. Education records were defined as those that pertain directly to the student and maintained by the institution (1). Personal information protected by the act includes:

  • identifying data
  • academic work completed
  • level of achievement (grades, standardized test scores, aptitude test results, interest inventories)
  • attendance data
  • health data
  • family background
  • teacher or counselor ratings
  • verbal reports of serious or recurrent behavior patterns (2)

References (1) Student Press Law Center 'White Paper - FERPA and Access to Public Records' ferpa_wp.pdf

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