Make clear that parents have full access to their children's school records
What the document says“The Secretary should make it clear that FERPA allows parents full access to their children’s educational records”
The chapter says any practice of paperwork obfuscation on this point violates federal law. FERPA is the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act.
What the document actually says“The Secretary should make it clear that FERPA allows parents full access to their children’s educational records”
Parents may see their child's school records. The Secretary should say so plainly.
A law gives parents the right to see school records. The book says some schools make that hard. It says the rule should be stated clearly.
Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling
2025-01-29 · 90 FR 8853
Executive Order 14190 treats access to school records as a parental right to be enforced. Its section 3(a)(ii) requires the Secretary of Education, with the Secretaries of Defense and Health and Human Services and in consultation with the Attorney General, to deliver a plan for protecting parental rights under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, and section 3(b)(iv)(A) requires an analysis of each agency's process for preventing or rescinding federal funds used to interfere with a parent's federal statutory right to information about school curriculum, records, physical examinations and surveys under that Act or the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment. What the chapter asks for is different in kind: a statement by the Secretary making clear that the Act allows parents full access to their children's educational records. The order produces a strategy for the President rather than guidance to schools, and it reaches only the policies and conduct implicated by that order's own subject.
The order calls for a plan to guard the rights of parents over school records. It also asks which funds could be pulled from schools that block them. The chapter wanted a plain statement to schools about the law. The order writes a plan for the President instead.
3 agency rules
- Combating Gender Ideology in Foreign AssistanceState Department · January 27, 2026
- Combating Discriminatory Equity Ideology in Foreign Assistance RulesState Department · January 27, 2026
- Protecting Life in Foreign AssistanceState Department · January 27, 2026
Each of these names the order above in its own summary, preamble or filing. That is a fact about the document, not a finding that it carries out this proposal: it is one step further away than the order is, and what it does about the proposal is a reading nobody has made here.