Must schools provide student directory information to military recruiters within a certain time frame?
No. Recruiters sometimes tell school officials that they must hand over student information within a specific amount of time (e.g. five business days), but there’s no legal basis for this demand. A school must respond to a request from a recruiter within a reasonable time frame that leaves plenty of time for students and parents to let the school know if they don’t want to release their information. Neither NCLB nor NDAA sets a time period in which schools must respond to military recruiters when they ask for student information. But since schools must provide students and parents with notice of their right to opt out and with enough time to exercise that right, the time frame must allow for those things to happen.
No. Recruiters may give a deadline but there’s no legal basis (in NCLB or NDAA) requiring the school to comply with such a demand. Schools must provide students and parents with notice of their right to opt out and with enough time to exercise that right. DO SCHOOLS HAVE TO ALLOW MILITARY RECRUITERS ON CAMPUS? Yes, but only if the school already allows colleges and prospective employers on campus. NCLB requires that military recruiters be given “equal access” to that given to college and employment recruiters. Equal access is not FREE access. Recruiters must make appointments in advance, just as any other outside group does. Schools can prohibit recruiters from removing students from class, from being given class time to talk to students, roaming the halls, or hanging out in the cafeteria if college or job recruiters are not allowed to. Note: Several law schools recently argued that they should be able to exclude the military from recruiting on campus, as they would other employers who
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