Disclosure Avoidance

Recorded Webinars

Data Transfer in the Larger Education Ecosystem

With this webinar we hope to expand the conversation around education data transfer and blockchain technologies. Join us for a conversation around the privacy implications to sharing data throughout a lifelong learner’s journey.

The recording for this presentation can be found here.

Guidance Videos

Introduction to Blockchains for Educators

Introduction to Blockchains for Educators is the first in a series of videos intended to introduce the technology behind blockchains and provide in

Best Practices

Colleges and the 2020 Census - Coronavirus Update

The U.S. Department of Education (ED) is working with Census to share updates on the 2020 Census.

Recorded Webinars

Colleges and the 2020 Census - Webinar

This webinar accompanies the guidance document on the 2020 Census and Colleges. This presentation provides background information on reporting requ

Recorded Webinars

Colleges and the 2020 Census - Slides

Best Practices

Data Breach Scenario Trainings

The Data Breach Scenario Trainings are a series of packaged trainings developed by the Privacy Technical Assistance Center, designed to help educational organizations at all levels conduct internal staff development on data breaches. Each scenario has been developed into a training package, providing ready-to-use resources for the scenario leader(s) and participants.

Guidance

2020 Census and FERPA

Letter on the applicability of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) to the disclosure by IHEs or postsecondary institutions of certain personally identifiable information (PII) from student education records to representatives of the U.S. Census Bureau (Bureau) in connection with the 2020 Census.

Guidance

School Resource Officers, School Law Enforcement Units, and the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)

This guidance document consists of thirty-seven commonly asked questions about schools’ and school districts’ responsibilities under FERPA relating to disclosures of student information to school resource officers (SROs), law enforcement units and others, and seeks to explain and clarify how FERPA protects student privacy while ensuring the health and safety of students and others in the school community. SRO LEU LEO

Guidance

Integrated Data Systems and Student Privacy

This webinar accompanies the guidance document on Integrated Data Systems. This presentation provides background information on what an Integrated Data System (IDS) is and why educational authorities may choose to participate in one, and clarifies how such authorities can participate in an IDS while ensuring student privacy in compliance with FERPA.

Guidance

SPPO response to Louisiana on Enrollment Data and Disclosure Avoidance

Letter to the Louisiana State Superintendent of Education answering questions relating to protecting student privacy in public reporting. The document addresses the U.S. Department of Education’s practices and recommendations to States on how to protect privacy when publicly reporting enrollment data.

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