Get 2016-2017 Ferpa Release Form - Uic Financial Aid

FERPA regulates the privacy of student education records, which could include your application to the college where you enroll. FERPA also gives you the right to review confidential letters of recommendation provided as part of that application after you enroll. 2.

-In general, schools must have written permission from parent/eligible student to release any information regarding the student's education record.

FERPA permits school officials to disclose, without consent, education records, or personally identifiable information from education records, to appropriate parties (see Q&A 9) in connection with an emergency, if knowledge of that information is necessary to protect the health or safety of the student or other ...

A school, district, the CDE, or any party that is authorized to receive personally identifiable information from education records may release the records or information without the required written consent if all personally identifiable information has been removed.

Second, it prohibits educational institutions from disclosing “personally identifiable information in education records” without the written consent of the student, or, if the student is a minor, the student's parents. (20 U.S.C.S. § 1232g(b)). Schools that fail to comply with FERPA risk losing federal funding.

Typically, law enforcement officials, public health officials, trained medical personnel, and parents (including parents of an eligible student) are the types of appropriate parties to whom information may be disclosed under this FERPA exception.

Is it permissible to release grade point average (GPA) to honors organizations without consent? No. FERPA does not generally permit a school to disclose a student's GPA without the parent's or eligible student's consent.

The student must complete the education section within Common App first, then complete the FERPA release authorization. The FERPA release authorization is found within the Recommenders and FERPA section of the my colleges tab, and the "release authorization" link must be checked with the FERPA decision.