34 CFR 99.5 FERPA · Part 99: FAMILY EDUCATIONAL RIGHTS AND PRIVACY · Subpart A: General
34 CFR 99.5 FERPA: What are the rights of students?
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Official text
When a student becomes an eligible student, the rights accorded to, and consent required of, parents under this part transfer from the parents to the student.
Nothing in this section prevents an educational agency or institution from disclosing education records, or personally identifiable information from education records, to a parent without the prior written consent of an eligible student if the disclosure meets the conditions in § 99.31(a)(8), § 99.31(a)(10), § 99.31(a)(15), or any other provision in § 99.31(a).
The Act and this part do not prevent educational agencies or institutions from giving students rights in addition to those given to parents.
An individual who is or has been a student at an educational institution and who applies for admission at another component of that institution does not have rights under this part with respect to records maintained by that other component, including records maintained in connection with the student's application for admission, unless the student is accepted and attends that other component of the institution.
(Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1232g(d))
Source: Electronic Code of Federal Regulations (eCFR), title 34, up to date as of 29 October 2026, from the eCFR API (ecfr.gov). The eCFR is an editorial compilation of the CFR and Federal Register amendments, not an official legal edition of the CFR.
Source credit: [53 FR 11943, Apr. 11, 1988, as amended at 58 FR 3188, Jan. 7, 1993; 65 FR 41853, July 6, 2000; 73 FR 74852, Dec. 9, 2008]
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