Educational Records

Axon Education defines education records according to language from the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). The term “education records” is defined as those records that contain information directly related to a student and which are maintained by an educational agency or institution or by a party acting for the agency or institution.

Axon Education will provide certain privacy protections for those education records that it does maintain. Axon Education will provide an eligible student with an opportunity to inspect and review his or her education records within 45 days following its receipt of a request. Axon Education may choose to provide an eligible student with copies of education records, or make other arrangements, if a failure to do so would effectively prevent the student from obtaining access to the records.

Axon Education generally prohibits the improper disclosure of personally identifiable information derived from education records. Information that an official obtained through personal knowledge or observation, or has heard orally from others, is not considered to be protected. This remains applicable even if education records exist which contain that information, unless the official had an official role in making a determination that generated a protected education record. Certain students who are officially sponsored by an employer, volunteer organization or other entity may sign a Waiver for the Disclosure of Educational Records providing specific parties the right to request and view any and all education records that might ordinarily be available to the student.

An eligible student has the right to request that inaccurate or misleading information in his or her education records be amended. While Axon Education is not required to amend education records in accordance with an eligible student’s request, Axon Education will consider the request. If Axon Education decides not to amend a record in accordance with an eligible student’s request, Axon Education must inform the student of his or her right to a hearing on the matter. If, as a result of the hearing, Axon Education still decides not to amend the record, the eligible student has the right to insert a statement in the record setting forth his or her views. That statement must remain with the contested part of the eligible student’s record for as long as the record is maintained.

Axon Education maintains the right to disclose personally identifiable information from education records without consent when the disclosure is to the parents of a student at a postsecondary institution regarding the student’s violation of any Federal, State, or local law, or of any rule or policy of the institution, governing the use or possession of alcohol or a controlled substance. The school may consensually disclose information under this exception if the school determines that the student has committed a disciplinary violation with respect to that use or possession and the student is under 21 years of age at the time of the disclosure to the parent.

Axon Education maintains the right to non-consensually disclose personally identifiable information from a student’s education records when such information has been appropriately designated as directory information. “Directory information” is defined as information contained in the education records of a student that would not generally be considered harmful or an invasion of privacy if disclosed.

Directory Information includes:

Name

Address

E-mail Address

Telephone Number

Permanent Telephone Number

Dates of Attendance

Program of Study

Classification

Previous Educational Institutions Attended

Degrees, Honors, and Awards Received

Participation in Officially Recognized Activities

Axon will routinely disclose Attendance Data if directly requested without additional student consent.

Attendance Data includes:

Name

Dates of Attendance

Program of Study

Classification

All other information will only be released with express permission from the student.

Under certain conditions, Axon Education may non-consensually disclose personally identifiable information from education records:

– to authorized representatives of the Comptroller General of the United States, the Attorney General of the United States, the U.S. Secretary of Education, and State and local educational authorities for audit or evaluation of Federal or State supported education programs, or for the enforcement of or compliance with Federal legal requirements that relate to those programs;

– to organizations conducting studies for or on behalf of the school making the disclosure for the purposes of administering predictive tests, administering student aid programs, or improving instruction;

– to comply with a dicial order or a lawfully issued subpoena;

– to the victim of an alleged perpetrator of a crime of violence or a non-forcible sex offense concerning the final results of a disciplinary hearing with respect to the alleged crime;

– and to any third party the final results of a disciplinary proceeding related to a crime of violence or non-forcible sex offense if the student who is the alleged perpetrator is found to have violated the school’s rules or policies.

The disclosure of the final results only includes: the name of the alleged perpetrator, the violation committed, and any sanction imposed against the alleged perpetrator. The disclosure must not include the name of any other student, including a victim or witness, without the written consent of that other student.