Protecting student privacy, or hiding key details from the public? How schools use or misuse a 50-year-old law you might not know about
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Protecting student privacy, or hiding key details from the public? How schools use or misuse a 50-year-old law you might not know about
A young boy suffered a serious head injury on the playground, but his family can’t get surveillance video to learn what happened. The school said releasing that footage would violate student privacy.A governor ordered schools to notify parents if there’s a fentanyl overdose at their child’s school. But schools resisted the order, citing an often misunderstood law.Across the country, K-12 schools and universities have denied information to the public – even to parents of injured students – citing student privacy or FERPA, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act.But many schools have misinterpreted the federal law, said CNN Senior Counsel ..