Why it matters

FERPA applies to ed-tech LLM. Understanding shapes education deployment.

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The architecture

Student records in prompts.

School official exception.

Vendor as school official + service agreement.

FERPA + LLMStudent dataPII recordsSchool officialvendor roleService agreementcontrols + auditUnder-18 has stricter rules; state laws (SOPIPA, etc.) add complexity
FERPA LLM.
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How it works end to end

Student data classification.

Consent for disclosure.

Vendor agreements: purpose limits.

Directory info vs education records.