The educational success of students experiencing homelessness requires collaboration. Efforts to collaborate, however, must be sensitive both to students’ privacy rights—rights protected by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) —and to assuring that sharing information about students experiencing homelessness does not create a barrier to their identification, enrollment, or retention in school.
This issue brief explains what educational information pertaining to homeless students can be shared, with whom, and under what circumstances, consistent with FERPA and the McKinney-Vento Act