Lex-Praxis of Education Informational Privacy for Public Schoolchildren

Starting with the premise that students' informational privacy is constitutionally protected, this Article will examine the federal statutes that purport to protect that privacy. Part II will sort through the current versions of federal statutes that regulate the collection, maintenance, and disclosure of student information and examine whether they actually protect student privacy interests. Part III will outline what information a local policy must constitutionally protect that the statutes really do not. Finally, Part IV will set out a plan for incorporating fair information practices into the framework of any local privacy policy and thereby set out a more coherent praxis for school administrators to follow, one that will comply, at the very least, with the same informational privacy standards that are afforded adults.