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South Carolina
Education Scholarship Trust Fund: confidentiality of scholarship applicants' and students' personally identifiable information, and student privacy duties of the Department of Education and the Education Oversight Committee
S.C. Code Ann. secs. 59-8-120(B) and 59-8-150(D) and (E)
In force since .
A sensitive categories rule binding government bodies.
- Instrument type
- an act of a legislature
- Obligation class
- Governance, Security
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- If you are the Department of Education, keep confidential, and exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act, information contained in or produced from a tax return, document or electronically stored data you use in exercising your duties under the Education Scholarship Trust Fund chapter (section 59-8-120(B)).
- Keep confidential, and do not disclose under the Freedom of Information Act, the personally identifiable information, as described in the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, of children applying for or receiving scholarships (section 59-8-120(B)).
- If you are the Department of Education, comply with all student privacy laws, and send individual student assessment results and information to the Education Oversight Committee in a manner that safeguards the data to ensure student privacy (section 59-8-150(D)).
- If you are the Education Oversight Committee, comply with all student privacy laws, and reduce the thirty participating-student cell size for a school report only if you determine the reduction discloses no participating student's personally identifiable information, and never to fewer than ten participating students (section 59-8-150(E)).
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What record it asks for
Logging duty
Sections 59-8-120(B) and 59-8-150(D) and (E) require confidentiality, student privacy compliance and safeguarded transmission, and name no log, register or retained file of access to student data.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Information contained in or produced from a tax return, document, or magnetically or electronically stored data used by the Department of Education in the exercise of its duties under the Education Scholarship Trust Fund chapter must remain confidential and is exempt from disclosure pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act.
Personally identifiable information, as described in the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, of children applying for or receiving scholarships must remain confidential and is not subject to disclosure pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act.
The Department of Education must comply with all student privacy laws, collect all test results, and annually provide individual student assessment results and information to the Education Oversight Committee, and the transmission of the information must be made in a manner that safeguards the data to ensure student privacy. The Education Oversight Committee must comply with all student privacy laws.
The Education Oversight Committee must report on and publish associated learning gains and graduation rates to the public by means of a state website with data aggregated by grade level, gender, family income level, number of years participating in the program, and race.
If the Education Oversight Committee determines that the thirty participating-student cell size for a school report may be reduced without disclosing the personally identifiable information of a participating student, it may reduce the cell size, but the cell size may not be reduced to fewer than ten participating students.
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