BPS Special education Manual
  • Overview
    • BPS Special Education Manual Sections
    • Overview
    • Special Education Services and Supports
    • Procedural Safeguards
    • Staff Responsibiities
  • Pre-Referral/Child Find
    • Child Outreach Screening
    • Transition from Early Intervention
    • Response to Intervention
    • Pre-Referral
  • Referral and Evaluation
    • Referral
    • Evaluation
    • Independent Evaluation
    • Assessment Factors Related to Type of Disability
    • Reevaluation
    • Determination of Eligibility
  • IEP
    • Overview
    • IEP Team
    • IEP FAQs
    • Review and Revision of IEP
    • Accommodations/Modifications
    • Assistive Technology
    • State Assessment
    • Progress Monitoring and Reporting
    • Release of Records
    • EMAIL Communication
    • Medicaid
    • Termination of Special Education Services

Release of Records

Families have rights under state and federal law* regarding the protection of the confidentiality of any personally identifiable information.  Parents must give the school department written permission before releasing student records/information to any person (who is not the legal guardian of the student)  or agency.  In addition,  parents must give written permission to the school department before the school department can obtain student records/information from any person  (who is not the legal guardian of the student) or agency for educational planning.  This includes both written communication and verbal exchange.  Email communications are considered educational records if they are directly related to a student.  It is the district's responsibility to protect the confidentiality of this information.  

Written consent for release of information is documented on the Release of Records Form (PPS-11).

Release of Records
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*Federal

· The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (also known as the Buckley Amendment) was passed in 1974 and amended in 2008

· The Improving America’s Schools Act amended several components of FERPA in 1974

· Individuals with Disabilities Educational Improvement Act of 2004

· Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and amended

*State

· Regulations of the Board of Regents for Elementary and Secondary Education Governing the Special Education of Children with Disabilities (2019)
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