The school board shall adopt regulations to maintain the confidentiality of such records. Such pupil or parent or guardian shall, upon request, be provided with a copy of the behavioral records. The complainant alleges that the district failed to respond in a timely manner to her request for copies of her daughter's education records. The district responds that the records requested by the parent were provided in a timely manner. Federal law provides a parent the right to inspect and review any education records relating to the child that are collected, maintained, or used by the district.
State law provides that a parent be shown and upon request be provided a copy of a pupil's records.
Department staff interviewed the complainant and the principal of the child's school. The complainant parent made a telephone request for copies of pupil records from the principal of her child's school on January 11, 1996. There is disagreement about what records were requested. The parent states that she requested all of her daughter's pupil records. The principal states that only the 1994-95 attendance records were requested.