Family Educational Rights Privacy Act (FERPA)

The Office of Educational Technology will host the Education Stabilization Fund – Reimagine Workforce Preparation Grants (ESF-RWP) Credential Interoperability pre-application webinar for prospective applicants July 16th, 2020.

With this webinar we hope to expand the conversation around education data transfer and blockchain technologies. Join us for a conversation around the privacy implications to sharing data throughout a lifelong learner’s journey.

The recording for this presentation can be found here.

In the first installment of our three part webinar series, we will discuss an important credit interoperability use case — reverse transfer, where postsecondary institutions facilitate data transactions between with other academic institutions to award credentials to students when they physically transfer. During this session, we will explore where in the implementation of this system occur implications for data privacy and security, how FERPA applies in these cases, and what questions were addressed by the institutions involved to ensure FERPA compliance.

This document is a template notice for school districts notifying parents and eligible students (students over 18 years of age or attending a school beyond the high school level) about their rights under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA).

This document is a template notice for school districts notifying parents and eligible students (students over 18 years of age or attending a school beyond the high school level) to inform eligible students about their rights under the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (PPRA).

This document is a template notice for postsecondary institutions to use in informing eligible students about their rights under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA).

The Student Privacy Policy Office (SPPO) is reviewing over four years a sample of the websites of 1,504 Local Education Agencies (LEAs) to identify whether and how these websites include information on student privacy.

Webinar slides for "FERPA and Virtual Learning during the COVID-19" presentation.  This webinar is intended to provide information on privacy best practices and insight into helpful resources available to the education community during this critical time of national emergency. 

We will address commonly asked questions related to the challenges of complying with student privacy laws like FERPA during this time and present a series of scenarios which highlight privacy best practices and considerations when adopting distance learning approaches.