"Six years ago, the author of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act said it was being stretched beyond all recognition:
“I do know college administrations have played a lot of games with it.
There’s a lot of stonewalling going on.”
The stonewalling has arguably become even worse.
According to Zach Greenberg, legal fellow at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, FERPA “is a privacy statute that doesn’t protect privacy, a rights statute that creates no enforceable rights, and an access statute that allows colleges to conceal information that would invite bad press.”
According to Zach Greenberg, legal fellow at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, FERPA “is a privacy statute that doesn’t protect privacy, a rights statute that creates no enforceable rights, and an access statute that allows colleges to conceal information that would invite bad press.”
He writes in The Chronicle of Higher Education that “poor enforcement, flawed court decisions, and nonexistent guidance from the Department of Education” have provided colleges “a distorted excuse for institutional stonewalling” on matters such as sexual-assault reports, “cronyism” and “administrative malfeasance.”..."
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