BUCKLEY AND PELL MOVE TO REVISE LAW ON RIGHT TO SCHOOL RECORDS

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP76M00527R000700060018-9
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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 23, 2001
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: December 4, 1974
• Content Type: NSPR

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NEW YORK TIMES DATE 4 2 1 PAGE
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By EDWARD B. FISKE
;enators James L. Buckley Privacy Act that was proposed
jnd ai orne e 1 announced on the Senate floor by Senator
5=r y tat they -would Buckley, the Conservative-Re-
intl propose next week legis- publican of New York, and
1 ion am d con'iroversial adopted as an amendment to
actions of new law giving the Elementary and Secondary
?arei is and students-the `right Education Act of 1974.
examine school records la The so : called "Buckley
lAmgng other tfhin s e pro amendment" gives parehts and
.gosed ohaes wiii dguaraarilee adult students the right to in?
!~jiconfidentiality, of existing spect school records and re-
1 rs of recommehi a ion, stricts the rights of institutions
permit- students to waive. the to pass on the content of stu-
>ht to see selected documentsldents' files to outsiders.
and _6,e trict the right 'of stun . Thy, legislation, wTiich went
but vesiin-
dents to sft_pa_rents' financial; into effect Nov. 1
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s ements?. lContinued on Page 36, Column 6
Aides to the two" Senators
said, however, 'that they would I -- i
mi is ra orb to e'lay Triple- st tutions Tays To res to
~g~ta~, tion of the new law"until; requests to see files, has been
heari,r. s can be held. " widely criticized- by college of_
1;, The legislation involved is the ficials. Most institutions have
Family Educational Rights and' refused to open the records in
the'hope that allegedly "unin-
tended" consequences of the
legislation could be corrected
by amending legislation.
In a joint statement issued
tee and go into effect befor
the end of the 45-day grace pe
riod.
Aides to the two senator
said that the changes would
include the following amend-
ments:
cLetters of recommendation
and other materials already re-
ceived by institutions under
the assumption of confidential-
ity would be excluded from
coverage.
cStudents would be allowed
to waive their right to see cer-
IlThe definitions of "records"
and "hearings," which were
widely criticized as too fuzzy,
would be sharpened.
The changes were agreed
upon by the two Senators at a'
two-hour meeting at the Capi
tol yesterday morning. John-
Kwapisz, an aide to Senatof;
Buckley, said that the lawma-
ker was satisfied that the.
changes "clarify his originat:
intention."
The proposed legislation
would not meet the demand of
some educators to postpone en-
actment pending hearings, but
Ralph K. Huitt, executive direc-
tor of the National Associatioit
of State Universities and Land-
Grant Colleges, termed the pro=
posed changes satisfactory.
"If the amendment will take
care of the problems we had
with it, I don't see how we can
object to the fact that it hasn't
been postponed," he said.
yesterday, Senators Buckley and
Pell, the Rhode Island Dem-
ocrat who is chairman of the
Senate Education subcommit-
tee,.announced that they had
agreed on new legislation to
"clarify certain ambiguities" in
the new act.
The changes, which will be
proposed as an amendment
to a library bill now awaiting
act pon in the House, are eI ptdt-
ed to be accepted by the Senate
An.rl Hn?cn nnr~foro++r?o r?nv4i issi+_
tain classifications of docu-
ments, such as letters of recom-
mendation.
9Students would not be al-
lowed to have access to their
parents confidential financial
statements submitted to col-
.leges.
9Coleges would be free to
send grades to parents if the
student was still classified as a
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