United States · FERPA

Run FERPA education-record requests in one platform

For schools and educational agencies — AccessPoint manages parent and eligible-student inspection of education records within 45 days and amendment requests with the required hearing, inside your own Microsoft 365 tenant.

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United States — FERPA at a glance

Inspection deadline
Within 45 days of the request (34 CFR 99.10)
Who may request
A parent, or an eligible student (age 18 or attending a postsecondary institution)
Amendment
Request amendment; a hearing if the school declines (§§ 99.20–99.21)
After a hearing
If not amended, the individual may place a statement in the record (§ 99.22)
Oversight
US Department of Education, Student Privacy Policy Office (SPPO)
Languages
English

Built for United States — FERPA

One platform for the whole access-and-privacy mandate, pre-configured for this regime and running in your own Microsoft 365 tenant.

Education-record requests

Run parent and eligible-student inspection of education records on the 45-day clock, with the record scoped and every disclosure logged, all built on Microsoft 365.

Amendment and hearing

Manage an amendment request end to end — the school's decision, the § 99.21 hearing if it declines, and the § 99.22 statement the individual may place in the record.

Parent and eligible-student rights

Track who holds the right — the parent, or the eligible student once they turn 18 or enroll in a postsecondary institution — and route each request correctly.

Disclosure and consent log

Record consent, directory-information choices, and every permitted disclosure, so an education record's chain of access is always defensible.

SPPO-ready records

Keep each request, decision, and hearing outcome in a form the Student Privacy Policy Office would expect if a complaint is filed.

In your own tenant

Education records stay inside your own Microsoft 365 and Azure tenant — no third-party cloud, no vendor access to student data, no cross-border transfers.

Amendment with a hearing

FERPA doesn't just let students see their records — it gives them a hearing to fix them.

When a parent or eligible student believes an education record is inaccurate, misleading, or in violation of the student's privacy, they can ask the school to amend it. If the school declines, FERPA gives the requester something most records laws don't: a right to a hearing (34 CFR 99.21), and — if the record still isn't changed — a right to place a statement of disagreement in the record that travels with it whenever the record is disclosed (34 CFR 99.22). AccessPoint runs that full due-process chain — the 45-day inspection, the amendment decision, the hearing, and the statement — with every step recorded, so an educational agency can show exactly how a request was handled.

45-day inspection Inspection and review on FERPA's statutory clock.
The hearing right A § 99.21 hearing when the school declines to amend.
Statement in the record The § 99.22 statement, appended and disclosed with the record.

Configured out of the box

Installing the us-ferpa configuration pack seeds your tenant with everything this regime needs — a starting point you can adjust, not a lock-in.

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  • FERPA (20 U.S.C. § 1232g) and 34 CFR Part 99 as the legal-authority spine
  • The 45-day inspection clock (§ 99.10) with calendar-day math
  • Parent and eligible-student rights routing and the age/enrollment transfer of rights
  • The amendment decision, § 99.21 hearing, and § 99.22 statement workflow
  • Disclosure, consent, and directory-information logging
  • PPRA (20 U.S.C. § 1232h) handled alongside FERPA
  • FERPA correspondence and hearing-notice templates
  • A timestamped audit trail built for SPPO complaints

United States — FERPA Questions

Who is this FERPA configuration for?
Schools and educational agencies and institutions that receive US Department of Education funding — K-12 districts, colleges, and universities — handling parent and eligible-student requests to inspect and amend education records. It is not a public records or FOI tool; it runs the FERPA rights end to end.

How long do we have to let a parent or student inspect records?
No more than 45 days after the request is received (34 CFR 99.10). AccessPoint tracks the clock from intake, scopes the education record, and logs the disclosure, with reminders before the deadline.

What happens if we decline to amend a record?
FERPA requires you to notify the parent or eligible student and offer a hearing (§ 99.21). If the record still isn't amended after the hearing, they may place a statement of disagreement in the record that is kept with it and disclosed alongside it (§ 99.22). AccessPoint runs that full chain and records each step.

Where do education records reside?
Entirely within your own Microsoft 365 and Azure tenant. Education records, requests, and audit history never leave your control — no third-party cloud, no vendor access, and no cross-border data transfers.

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