When Jacob Rooksby speaks at education conferences about student privacy rights, he starts off with a couple questions for the audience.

“I start with, ‘True or false: If you make the wrong FERPA call, you can be personally sued’?” said Rooksby, referring to the federal privacy law known as the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act.

At least half of the people typically think yes, Rooksby said, which is not true. He then asks whether it’s true or false that if a school violates FERPA one time, it risks losing all of its federal funds. Again, he says, about half of people read more >>>

Source : HuffingtonPost.Com