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In each year of the study, SPPO is reviewing a nationally representative sample of 376 LEA websites, focusing on whether the LEAs included key student privacy documents and information about the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (PPRA) on the LEA website, as opposed to on individual school, board of education, or other websites. This report includes the first two years of research findings.  \nCombined two-year findings:  \n• 54 percent of LEAs reviewed posted on their websites the LEA’s Annual Notice under FERPA,  \n• 52 percent of LEAs posted on their websites the LEA’s policy under the Directory Information exception under FERPA, and  \n• 29 percent of LEAs posted on their website the LEA’s policy under PPRA.  \nFor these three key privacy documents that are posted on the LEA websites, fewer than twenty percent are listed as primary website content. In more than fifty percent of the cases, the documents are included as part of the student handbook, which may be a Portable Document Format (PDF) or other type of document linked from the LEA webpage.  \nFor the websites reviewed, 12 percent of LEA websites have navigation menus that include a section indicating where to find data practices and student privacy information. Moreover, only 7 percent of LEA websites include the LEA contact information if parents have questions about data sharing and student privacy.  \nBackground  \nThis study is derived from Strategic Objective 3.2, Performance Measure 3.2c of the U.S. Department of Education Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years 2018-2022. To inform the Department’s review of this objective, SPPO and its Privacy Technical Assistance Center (PTAC) are studying LEA practices for providing information on data sharing and student privacy on their websites. SPPO is responsible for administering FERPA and PPRA, and providing guidance and best practices on student privacy to the education community.  \nSPPO recommends as a transparency best practice that LEAs post their FERPA and PPRA student privacy-related information on their websites so that information is easily available to parents and the community. FERPA does not require that LEAs post their annual FERPA notice on their websites, but the law specifically requires LEAs to provide notice annually to parents of students and eligible students of their rights under FERPA “by any means that are reasonably likely to inform the parents or eligible students of their rights.” See 34 CFR § 99.7. With the increased utilization of LEA websites for the timely dissemination of information to the school community, SPPO believes that posting an appropriate notice on the LEA website is an effective manner of meeting FERPA’s Annual Notice requirement.  \nSample Selection  \nIn order to complete the review, a sampling plan was developed to determine which LEAs would be reviewed across four years of data collection (fiscal years 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022). A single sample of 1,504 LEAs was selected at the outset of the study, and randomly divided into four groups of 376 LEAs that would be reviewed across the four data collection years to create a nationally representative sample for each year. 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