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This information comes from teachers, school counselors, nurses, coaches, parents, and others. It is found in student assignments, school newsletters, bulletin boards, report cards, standardized tests, transcripts, and disciplinary reports. Agencies outside the school may furnish information about a student; for example, juvenile court counselors will notify the school ifa student is alleged or found to have committed an offense that would be a felony if committed by an adult.1  \nTeachers and school administrators need to know what information must be released if requested, what must not be released, and what may be released or not, depending on the school system’s policies. Administrators also must recognize situations in which specific information must be provided to agencies such as the department of social services or a law enforcement agency, regardless of whether the agency has requested the information.  \nThis article summarizes the law regulating the release of student information.“Student information” as used here refers both to personal knowledge that school employees have about students and to data found in records maintained by school employees. It includes information not only about individual students but also about groups of students: information found in school  \nThomasin Hughes is an attorney currently serving as a research assistant with Judge Loretta Biggs ofthe North Carolina Court of Appeals. She has volunteered extensively in the Chatham County school system. She has served as visiting clinical assistant professor at the UNC–CH Law School and as a research assistant at the Institute of Government.  \n1. See N.C. GEN. STAT. § 7B-3101 (hereinafter G.S. ) .  \npublications and announcements; in students’ report cards, test scores, and other information about individual students; in the statistical information about a school’s population; and in records of the activities, programs, clubs, meetings, teams, assemblies, and so forth that involve students. This article does not address the law governing release of information about school personnel.  \nGenerally, school administrators should consider the following in responding to requests for information:  \n• Is disclosure of the requested information regulated by the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)? This statute is the single most significant source of regulation of student information.  \n• Is disclosure of the requested information regulated by a federal or state statute other than FERPA? Such statutes usually target a specific situation or type of information.  \n• Is the requested information a public record under North Carolina state law? The public records law applies to most student information not regulated by another statute.  \n• What is the school system’s policy on release of the information?  \nThe statutes are confusing, and the issues have been litigated very infrequently in North Carolina. Thus, precise answers to many questions remain a matter of conjecture, although evaluation of appellate cases from other jurisdictions may offer guidance.  \n© 2000 Institute of Government  \nSchool Law Bulletin / Winter 2001 13  \nFamily Educational Rights and Privacy Act  \nThe Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA, also known as the Buckley Amendment),2 is a federal statute that regulates access to students’ education records. Generally, the law conditions receipt of federal funds on schools’ providing parents and guardians with access to their children’s education records,3 while protecting the same records from public access.4 FERPA imposes three primary duties on schools:  \n• Schools must allow parents and guardians to inspect their children’s education records and to challenge the contents of these records;  \n• Schools must guard education records from inspection by othe","cbCaidH6zJqNjJjo","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaidH6zJqNjJjo","pdf",864247,18,"English","# Student information and release responsibilities\n## Core sources of regulation\n## Types of information covered\n# FERPA overview\n## FERPA’s primary duties\n## Regulation limited to education records\n## Scope and examples of education records","[{\"question\":\"What must school administrators do when a request for student information is made?\",\"answer\":\"They must assess whether disclosure is regulated by FERPA, whether another statute applies, whether the request involves a public record under North Carolina law, and what the school system’s release policy requires.\"},{\"question\":\"What does “student information” include in the article’s definition?\",\"answer\":\"It includes both knowledge school employees have about students and data in school-maintained records, covering information about individual students and groups, such as report cards, test information, announcements, and statistical or activity records.\"},{\"question\":\"What are the three primary duties imposed on schools under FERPA?\",\"answer\":\"Schools must allow parents/guardians to inspect and challenge education records, protect those records from others’ inspection unless a consent or statutory exception applies, and provide annual notice of rights under FERPA.\"}]","Releasing Student Information: What’s Public and What’s Not | PDF",1789731685,45]