SAU16 students brought home a booklet today. The front page is permission to administer potassium iodide pills. Inside are several pages of policies which all parents should read. Especially the items on page 5, referencing the Federal Education Records Protection Act. Your child’s student education record can be released WITHOUT YOUR CONSENT. Read Number 3 to find out to whom.
The loophole is “disclosure to school officials with legitimate educational interests.”
Under the new regulatory interpretation, the U.S. Department of Education (USED) (and in fact state departments of education) may disclose personally identifiable student data to literally anyone in the world, as long as the disclosing agency uses the correct language to justify its action.
http://www.nacua.org/documents/FERPA_AACRAOLetterMay2011.pdf
Under the new regulations that gutted federal student-privacy law, data can now be shared with literally any agency if the correct enabling language is used: the Department of Health and Human Services, Homeland Security . . . the IRS (source: http://truthinamericaneducation.com/privacy-issues-state-longitudinal-data-systems/common-core-data-collection/)