FIRPA is often mistaken for FERPA which is the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. A piece of US legislation that ensures students have some control over the records kept about them by a school. The act is sometimes known as the Buckley Amendment after Senator James L. Buckley from New York.
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FERPA stands for Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). In addition, this act was passed in the year 1974.