Talk:Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act

General

This article needs work. In particular, looking at the regulations that are referred to, I don't see any mention of school bulletin boards or of grading by parent volunteers. Russ Blau (talk) 13:41, August 3, 2005 (UTC)

The link just goes to the Department of Education's main website for FERPA. You have to do a little more digging to actually get to the text of the regulations. The regulations are in a database, so I have not yet found a simple link that will take someone right there.

Ben7423

I'd like to see more info about pro-FERPA and anti-FERPA views as well. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.121.116.76 (talk) 02:54, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Legislative History

Since James Buckley was a Senator, he could not have introduced the legislation in the House, as stated in this section. Also, the history says that the bill was passed by the House in 1973, then by the Senate in Feb. 1974, but not signed by the President until August 1974. This is impossible, since Article I Section 7 of the U.S. Constitution says that a bill becomes law without the President's signature if the President has neither signed nor vetoed it within 10 days of its passage. Edgy4 (talk) 03:16, 26 August 2018 (UTC)

Expanding this article

There is MUCH more to FERPA than what is briefly described here. For example, there are myriad implications to post-secondary education, and not just in terms of academic performance. Student privacy rights as it pertains to student affairs professionals are important considerations. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by AMK390 (talk • contribs) 04:22, 13 February 2007 (UTC).

Agreed this article is woefully incomplete and inadequate. I believe it's importance and urgency, as well, are underestimated. This act, today, in 2009, is cited as the reason colleges and universities cannot reveal academic or financial billing account information to parents of their 18 year old offspring entering schools far from home without the specific permission of those children. It appears to go hand-in-hand with such as release of medical information. At the least, Americans should be able to turn to Wikipedia for some mention of the pertinent details of this 35 year old Federal regulation! --24.74.101.193 (talk) 02:16, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

Just saw an expose on the news in which a Houston reporter asked for, and received, the names, home addresses, phone numbers, ages, birthdates, school schedules, grades, and other information on more than 1200 first graders. The law apparently prevents schools from asking why the information is requested. There is an "opt out" form that's sent home at the beginning of each school year, but it's apparently worded in such a way that the implications aren't clear to many parents. Needless to say, this is the kind of loophole that needs to be explained in this article; anyone with a better perspective on this? The info from one nationally circulated local news story isn't enough.PacificBoy 00:09, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

FERPA Regulations

After digging around on the ed.gov site for more information on FERPA, I came across this page, in html and a pdf. It has much more information than the current ed.gov link out there, but I still haven't found the full text of the act.

• http://www.ed.gov/policy/gen/reg/ferpa/index.html
• http://www.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/fpco/pdf/ferparegs.pdf

Tergvelo 08:02, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Let us know if you do. Ocanter 00:09, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

"Full text of the act"? Do you mean this?--TroyGab (talk) 11:13, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Data security breaches

It would be useful to note that many data security breaches, including those of student records, are publicly announced and can be found online.

For example: https://www.privacyrights.org/data-breach Sadai98 (talk) 19:57, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

Age at what time?

Is the student's age calculated from the time of the enquiry, or from the time that the student was studying? E.g. If a student is now 18, but enquiry is made about last year's performance? —DIV (137.111.13.4 (talk) 00:35, 4 March 2016 (UTC))