Why are students’ names and birth dates used for PayPams (the vendor that allows parents add funds to a child’s lunch account over the Internet)?
RISD treats student privacy matters with the utmost care and diligence. The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) strictly governs the privacy of student educational records. Student directory information is considered an open record under FERPA that is releasable to anyone upon request unless a parent makes a privacy election (most commonly done on the beginning-of-year enrollment card). A parent privacy election addresses access to student information for use by independent third parties and for use in district publications (yearbooks, announcements, etc.). The privacy election does not include access to directory information for district business. In accordance with FERPA, the district may contract with outside parties (vendors) such as PayPams to fulfill district functions such as an electronic payment system for child nutrition provided that a confidentiality agreement is in place so that student information is not released to any other party or used for any other purp
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