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Directory Information

 

Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) Notice for Directory Information

The Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), a Federal law, requires each local education agency (LEA) to provide parents and eligible students’ effective notice of their rights under FERPA pertaining to directory information on an annual basis.  This notice serves to provide the required annual notification to parents and eligible students regarding their rights under FERPA pertaining to directory information.

FERPA requires that the Logan-Rogersville R-VIII School District, with certain exceptions, obtain your written consent prior to the disclosure of personally identifiable information from your child’s education records.  However, the Logan-Rogersville R-VIII School District may disclose appropriately designated “directory information” without written consent, unless you have advised the District to the contrary in accordance with District procedures.  The primary purpose of directory information is to allow the Logan-Rogersville R-VIII School District to include information from your child’s education records in certain school publications.  Examples include:

  • A playbill, showing your student’s role in a drama production;
  • The annual yearbook;
  • Honor roll or other recognition lists;
  • Graduation programs; and
  • Sports activity sheets, such as for wrestling, showing weight and height of team members.

 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 the Logan-Rogersville R-VIII School District to disclose any or all of the types of information designated below as directory information from your child’s education records without your prior written consent, you must notify the District in writing within ten (10) school days after the release date of this notice.  The Logan-Rogersville R-VIII School District has designated the following information as directory information:

  • Student’s name
  • Parent’s name
  • Grade level
  • Participation in district-sponsored or district-recognized activities and sports
  • Weight and height of members of athletic teams
  • Athletic performance data
  • Degrees, honors, and awards received
  • Artwork or coursework displayed by the district
  • Photographs, videotapes, digital images and recorded sound unless such photographs, videotapes, digital images and recorded sound would be considered harmful or an invasion of privacy.
  • Student’s and parent’s address (limited directory information per Board Policy JO)
  • Student’s and parent’s telephone number (limited directory information per Board Policy JO)
  • Student’s and parent’s email address (limited directory information per Board Policy JO)