Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) is a Federal
law designed to protect the privacy of a student's education records.
The law applies to all the schools which recieve funds udner an applicable
program of the U.S. Department of Education. FERPA gives parents certain
rights with respect to their children's education records. These rights
transfer to teh student, or former student, who has reached the age
of 18 or is attending any school beyond the high school level. Students
and former students to whom the rights have transferred are called
eligible students.
