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In each year of the study, SPPO reviewed 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. SPPO’s review found that:  \n• 53 percent of LEAs reviewed posted on their websites the LEA’s Annual Notification under FERPA;  \n• 50 percent of LEAs posted on their websites the LEA’s policy under the directory information exception under FERPA; and  \n• 28 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 54 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, 9 percent of LEA websites have navigation menus that include a section indicating where to find data practices and student privacy information. Moreover, only 5 percent of LEA websites include the contact information for LEA staff responsible for data sharing and student privacy policies if parents have questions about data sharing or 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) studied LEA practices for providing information on data sharing and student privacy on their websites. SPPO is responsible for administering FERPA and PPRA, and for 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, students, and the community. FERPA does not require that LEAs post their annual FERPA notification on their websites, but the law requires LEAs to provide notification 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 notification on the LEA website is an effective manner of meeting FERPA’s Annual Notification 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. In addition, a replacement sample of 100 LEAs was selected that may be used if any original sample LEAs could not be included at the time of data collection (for example, if the LEA closed, or if the LEA’s website is inactive).  \nIn each year of th","cbCaiuQBx1AQh5hg","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiuQBx1AQh5hg","pdf",711452,"English","# Executive Summary\n# Background\n# Sample Selection\n# Results\n# Topic: Annual Notification","[{\"question\":\"What period did the review cover and what data did it assess?\",\"answer\":\"The review covered September 2018 through August 2022 and assessed how 1,504 LEAs’ websites included information about student privacy, specifically FERPA and PPRA-related documents and notices.\"},{\"question\":\"Which FERPA and PPRA materials were tracked in the LEA website review?\",\"answer\":\"The review focused on whether LEAs posted key student privacy documents, including the FERPA Annual Notification, FERPA directory information policy, and PPRA-related policy information.\"},{\"question\":\"How were results sampled to represent LEAs across the country?\",\"answer\":\"A single national sample of 1,504 LEAs was randomly divided into four groups of 376 to cover four years of data collection, with an additional replacement sample of 100 if LEAs were unavailable. 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