Working with public education data means working with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), a federal law that protects the privacy of and access to personally identifiable information (PII) in student education records.

At the same time, Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) data is more than data – it represents important information about people, whether a child, student, parent/guardian or faculty or a staff member of a school or child development facility.