Sometimes faculty and staff find themselves in situations that aren't clearly defined by FERPA, the federal law that protects student education records. For example, you may have wondered: Can an ...

Faculty and staff have access to a great deal of student information that is private and protected by federal laws, specifically the Family Educational Rights and ...

Privacy protections under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act still apply, no matter where or how school takes place. Micah Castelo is a web editor for ...

REFLECTIONS ON REFORM: Fordham Institute President Michael Petrilli made a splash the other day when he spoke and blogged [ http://bit.ly/1xsqpVB] about ending “the ...

FERPA’s enforcement mechanism is inadequate. FERPA’s primary penalty—in the words of Microsoft’s Director of Education Policy and Programs Allyson Knox—is “all or nothing.” If schools violate FERPA, ...

The movement to build longitudinal-data systems on student achievement has long butted heads with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, better known as FERPA ...

We sent this email at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 15, 2025, to CU Boulder faculty, staff and temporary employees. Dear faculty and staff, Student data privacy is ...

The U.S. Department of Education failed to conduct timely, effective investigations of potential violations of the nation’s main student-data-privacy law, allowing a years-long backlog of unresolved ...

FERPA is the acronym for Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. The Office the Registrar offers two delivery methods for FERPA training. The training is designed ...