FERPA Rights

DIRECTORY INFORMATION
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), a Federal law, requires that Ozark City Schools, with certain exceptions, obtain your written consent prior to the disclosure of personally identifiable information from your child’s education records. However, Ozark City Schools may disclose appropriately designated “directory information” without written consent, unless you have advised the board to the contrary. The primary purpose of directory information is to allow Ozark City Schools to include information from your child’s education records in certain school publications. Examples include: a yearbook, a program for a school event, honor roll and other recognition lists, graduation programs, and sports media sheets.

Directory information, which is information that is generally not considered harmful or an invasion of privacy if released, can also be disclosed to outside organizations without a parent’s prior written consent. Outside organizations include, but are not limited to, companies that manufacture class rings or publish yearbooks. In addition, two federal laws require local educational agencies (LEAs) receiving assistance under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended (ESEA) to provide military recruiters, upon request, with the following information – names, addresses and telephone listings – unless parents have advised the LEA that they do not want their student’s information disclosed without their prior written consent.

If you do not want Ozark City Schools to disclose any or all of the types of information designated as directory information from your child’s education records without your prior written consent, you must notify Ozark City Schools in writing within 10 school days of the student’s enrollment date each year.