Parents' Rights

Parents’ rights with regard to the disclosure and utilization of their child’s information are identified primarily in the following statutes:


  • Federal Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), which can be viewed HERE
  • New York State Education Law Section 2-d (NYS Ed Law 2-d), which can be viewed HERE and its associated NYSED Part 121 Regulations, which can be viewed HERE


MOBOCES is required to annually notify parents of their rights under FERPA; that information can be found in our FERPA Notification Policy HERE. Under FERPA, MOBOCES may identify certain data elements as Directory Information, which may be disclosed without obtaining prior parental consent. Parents are provided with the opportunity to opt out of certain Directory Information disclosures by filling out the form HERE. The data identified as Directory Information by our BOCES is:


student’s name, address, telephone number, email address, date and place of birth, name of student’s parents, student’s home school district, student’s class designation, participation in extracurricular activities, dates of attendance, student’s achievement awards and honors, most recent previous educational agency attended by student, photographs, audio recordings, and video images of students (with or without sound) engaged in routine activities.


Additional FERPA Form Links: Inspection of Student Records, Correction of Student Records

The MOBOCES Education Records Policy can be found HERE.


NYS Ed Law 2-d requires educational agencies to adopt and share with parents their rights under the law, otherwise known as the Parents’ Bill of Rights, which can be viewed HERE.