[ [20] See Education of the Handicapped Act, 20 USC §§ 1400-20, and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 29 USC § 794.
[ [21] See generally 20 USC § 1232g and 34 C FR Part 99.
[ [22] The term "education records" is defined as records that are directly related to a student and maintained by or for the education agency or institution. The term does not include certain records maintained by a separate law enforcement unit of an education agency.
[ [23] FERPA permits a school to disclose information from education records to its own officials (including teachers) who have a legitimate educational interest in the information. A school may determine in its FERPA policy that one such interest is the need to decide on the appropriateness of discipline.
[ [24] An eligible student is a student who is 18 or older or attending an institution of postsecondary education.
[ [25] See Board of Education v. McCluskey, 458 U.S. 966, 970-71 (1982) (per cunam), see also Tarter v. Raybuck, 742 F2d 977, 983 (6th Cir. 1984), cert. denied, 105 S. Ct. 1749 (1985).
[ [26] See Harlow v. Fitzgerald, 457 U.S. 800 (1982), Wood v. Strickland, 420 U.S. 308 (1975). Under these cases, officials will be immune from personal liability so long as their conduct does not violate clearly established constitutional or Federal statutory rights of which a reasonable person should have known.
[ [27] Memphis Community School District v. Stachura, No. 85-410, 54 USLW 4771 (June 25, 1986).
[ [28] Carey v. Piphus, 435 U.S. 247 (1978).
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