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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So, in summary, no - [b]the school didn't actually violate FERPA la[/b]ws, and the parties involved were trying to smear the school with lies while covering up a string of violent assaults.

Lovely.

Well, there's another anti-charter hit piece that backfired.[/quote]

Don't be too hasty in deciding this.

http://nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com/2015/10/ferpa-complaint-from-fatima-geidi-to.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FEJcmuc+%28NYC+Public+School+Parents%29
http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2015/10/success_academies_eva_moskowitz_published_a_student_s_disciplinary_record.html[/quote]

Seems to me the Department of Ed already decided it's not a violation.  Here's their guidance:

http://www2.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/fpco/ferpa/students.html

"a school may non-consensually disclose personally identifiable information from education records:

...to any third party the final results of a disciplinary proceeding related to a crime of violence or non-forcible sex offense if the student who is the alleged perpetrator is found to have violated the school's rules or policies. The disclosure of the final results only includes: the name of the alleged perpetrator, the violation committed, and any sanction imposed against the alleged perpetrator. The disclosure must not include the name of any other student, including a victim or witness, without the written consent of that other student."[/quote]

No, the Department of Education has not decided anything. You have quoted their guidance. The question is whether that guidance applies in this particular case. The Department of Education has not answered that question.

I personally do not see why it would apply, because the information Eva Moskowitz released was not the final results of a disciplinary proceeding related to a crime of violence or non-forcible sex offense -- in fact, I don't think that there was any such disciplinary proceeding, was there? But I am not a lawyer.[/quote]

Hitting someone is assault, and assault is a crime and is a violation of school policies.  The disciplinary proceeding was kicking them out of school.

Is that really so hard to understand?[/quote]

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