The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) is a federal law enacted in 1974 to protect the privacy of personally identifiable information in students’ education records. FERPA grants parents and students control over the disclosure of these records.
FERPA, sometimes called the Buckley Amendment, provides four key rights:
The right to access their records held by an educational institution.
The right to request amendments to those records.
The right to consent to disclosure of their records.
The right to file a complaint with the FERPA Office.
Read more about FERPA requirements.