FERPA General Guidance for Parents (En Español)
This compliation of letters and guidance documents provides parents with general information about the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). This document is a compilation and update of various letters and guidance documents previously issued that respond to a variety of questions about FERPA. This is the spanish translation.
School Volunteers and FERPA
Volunteers are important in helping schools operate efficiently, but it's important to know your role in protecting student information while helping out in your school. This video explains some of a school volunteer's responsibilities to help keep the student information they work with private and secure. The Privacy Technical Assistance Center has also released a corresponding brochure that schools can use to help train their volunteers with their legal responsibilities to protect student data. This brochure can be found here.
Response to Assistance Request from University of North Carolina
This is a response for technical assistance to the University of North Carolina.
School Volunteer Brochure
The Privacy Technical Assistance Center has produced a brochure that schools can use to notify volunteers of their legal responsibilities to preserve student privacy.
What Parents Need to Know about their Student's Data
This video, intended for parents, provides guidance and information on what questions they might want to ask their schools or districts if they have questions about the data the district collects and/or maintains. The video also provides an overview of the types of questions parents should ask and why.
Transparency Best Practices for Schools and Districts - September 2014
This webinar presents a number of best practices for schools and districts to use for communicating with parents about student data.
Letter to Nevada Department of Education about the applicability of FERPA to providing parents with access to their children's education records at the State level.
Student Privacy 101:
The Department of Education is committed to student privacy. We administer the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), and we provide technical assistance to help schools and school districts use best practices in their use and management of information about students. This site aims to assist stakeholders in protecting the privacy of students by providing official guidance on FERPA , technical best practices and the answers to Frequently Asked Questions. Responsibility for the Department's student privacy operations lies in the Office of the Chief Privacy Officer. To learn more about FERPA please click on the video to the right.
SPPO Findings Letters 2012
As part of its enforcement activities under FERPA, the Student Privacy Policy Office issues a variety of letters to include letters that explain why an investigation will not be initiated as well as that detail our findings after conducting an investigation. While we have identified those letters of more significance and posted them under "Letters of Importance," we also want to make available the full collection of findings letters we issued in this archive. The attached archive, in ZIP file format, contains redacted letters from the 2012 calendar year.