On Monday, the U.S. Department of Education announced that they would propose new regulations governing student privacy rights in the next several weeks.

In the announcement, the Department stated that they would revise rules to implement the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) with two goals in mind.

• Strengthen enforcement, and
• Clarify how states can use information from the statewide longitudinal data systems to inform policy decisions without running afoul of the student privacy law.