Texas Education Code 25.085 (Compulsory School Attendance) states that a child who is at least six years of age, or who is younger than six years of age and has previously been enrolled in first grade, and who has not yet reached the child's 19th birthday shall attend school.
Final answer: School officials can release identifiable information without parental consent when required by law, in emergencies or to school officials with legitimate interests.
The Texas Data Privacy and Security Act (TDPSA) establishes new laws for collecting, storing, processing, and selling consumer information linked to a specific individual.
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) is a federal law that affords parents the right to have access to their children's education records, the right to seek to have the records amended, and the right to have some control over the disclosure of personally identifiable information from the education ...
These responsibilities include: TOPS will not use students' personal information to create an online profile for a particular student, unless this profile is strictly used for a school purpose, as defined under the law. TOPS will not use students' personal information for the purposes of targeted advertising.
Chapter 37 of the Texas Education Code (TEC) gives teachers the authority to remove disruptive students from their classrooms. The law allows teachers two types of removals: a discretionary removal and a mandatory removal.