Bill Allows Parental Access to Data Mined Student Records

Here are details of a New Hampshire bill (HB1139) allowing parental access on the data mining and records of their children.  From gencourt.state.nh.us:

This bill allows a parent, legal guardian, or person who is 18 years of age or older to have access to the unique pupil identifier and related information in the data warehouse.

224:1 Unique Pupil Identification; Availability. Amend RSA 193-E:5, I(b) to read as follows:

 (b) The random number generator shall make available to each early childhood program, district, or postsecondary institution a unique pupil identifier for each pupil pursuing an education in a New Hampshire early childhood program, district, or postsecondary institution. The unique pupil identifier itself shall not permit pupil identification within a [sub-category] subcategory including, but not limited to, early childhood program, district, postsecondary institution, sex, age, grade, or county of residence.

 224:2 Unique Pupil Identification; Access. Amend RSA 193-E:5, I(d) to read as follows:

(d)(1) Access to the random number generator shall be limited to an early childhood program director or designee, a district superintendent or designee, or a postsecondary institution registrar or designee, and only for pupils pursuing an education in that early childhood program, district, or postsecondary institution.
(2) A parent or legal guardian shall, upon request made in person to the early child program director, school district superintendent for the district which the child last attended, or postsecondary institution registrar, have access to their child’s unique pupil identifier and their child’s data maintained in the data warehouse. A person who is 18 years of age or older shall, upon request made in person to the early child program director, school district superintendent for the district which the person last attended, or postsecondary institution registrar, have access to their unique pupil identifier and their data maintained in the data warehouse.

This bill language should be in front of your state legislators and bills should be filed in all states.   If we can't stop the data mining, at least parents should know what information is being gathered and if it is accurate. The one addition on the bill would be allow access to the third party (researchers, private organizations) data mining allowed by the Department of Education due to the rewriting of FERPA.