FERPA
Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act

 

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WHAT IS FERPA?

FERPA is Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (sometimes called the Buckley Amendment). Passed by Congress in 1974, the Act grants specific rights to the student:

 

• the right to inspect and review the education records;

 

• the right to seek amendment to those records and in certain cases append a statement to the record; and

 

• the right to control the disclosure of information from education records