Student Data Protection


Notification of FAMILY EDUCATION RIGHTS AND PRIVACY ACT (FERPA)

The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) provides parents and students over 18 years of age (“eligible students”) certain rights regarding the student’s education records. These rights are:

 

 

To request an inspection and review, the parent or eligible student should submit a written request to the Head of School that identifies the record (s) they wish to inspect. The Head of School will arrange for access and notify the parent or eligible student of the time and place where the records may be inspected.

 

Parents or eligible students may ask the school to amend a record that they believe is inaccurate. They should write the Head of School; clearly identify the part of the record they want changed and specify why it is inaccurate. If the School decides not to amend the record as requested by the parent or eligible student, the school notifies the parent or eligible student of the decision and advises him/her of his/her right to a hearing regarding the request for amendment. Additional information regarding the hearing procedures is provided to the parent or eligible student when notified of the right to a hearing.

 

 

One exception that permits the school to disclose information without consent is when the school discloses information to school officials with legitimate educational interests. A school official is a person employed by or contracted to provide services to or designated by the contractor to provide services to the school as an administrator, supervisor, instructor, or support staff member (including health or medical staff and law enforcement unit personnel); a person serving on the Board of Directors of the School; a person or company with whom the school has contracted to perform a special task (such as an attorney, auditor, medical consultant, or therapist); or a parent or student serving on an official committee, such as a disciplinary or grievance committee, or assisting another school official in performing his or her tasks.

 

A school official has a legitimate educational interest if the official needs to review an education record in order to fulfill his or her professional responsibility.

 

Upon request, the school discloses education records without consent to officials of another school district in which a student seeks or intends to enroll.

 

 

Family Policy Compliance Office

U.S. Department of Education 400 Maryland Ave., S.W.

Washington, D.C. 20202-4605

 

 

 

 

If there are certain items the school has chosen to designate as directory information that parents do not want disclosed from their student’s education records, without their prior written consent, parents are encouraged to send an e-mail identifying the information they do not want disclosed, the student’s name, and the name of the virtual academy or affiliate school in which the student is enrolled to: directoryinformation@k12.com.

 

Notice of these rights is available, upon request, on audiotape, in Braille, and in languages other than English.