Rather, it arms its readers with a process they can use to customize technology solutions to their organization's specific needs. The guidelines are expected to be of most use to persons in schools or districts. However, they are also applicable to other types of education settings, including colleges, universities, libraries, and state education agencies. It also addresses budgetary and human resources concerns. It is written in non-technical language and includes references to numerous other resources.
School districts maintain and use personal information for a variety of educational purposes.
Students and their parents entrust schools with their personal information with the expectation it will be used to serve the students effectively and efficiently. To protect the privacy of families whose children are in school, states and the federal government have established strong legal statutes to secure information that schools maintain in student education records. Thus, agency and school staff are not only ethically, but also legally, responsible for safeguarding student information in order to protect the privacy of students and their families. Protecting the Privacy of Student Records was written to help state and local education agencies and schools develop adequate policies and procedures to protect information about students and their families from improper release, while still satisfying the need for school officials to make sound management, instructional, and service decisions.