HCPSS MPIA Request #2018-067

Requested Information
Please reinstate the original, inaccurate data contained in MPIA Request #2018-004. You may apply cautionary statements, amend it, edit it, submit a revision. A removal and a repost, without the original data standing for reference, is not transparent. It is opaque. In addition, what was the date of the original request? And on what date was the data removed?
Status
Complete
Responsive Documents
This file contains inaccurate data, as noted on each page. In order to protect against potential disclosures of personally identifiable information about students when looking at polygon-level data where those who know the residents of a particular neighborhood may be able to deduce student-level information, HCPSS is following National Center for Education Statistics’ federal guidelines for protecting student privacy in public reporting. Under both the Family and Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA), which restricts access to student records, and MPIA GP § 4-313, which prevents disclosure of school district records pertaining to individual students, FARMs and academic testing data has been suppressed. Suppression * includes FARMs and academic testing numbers that fall below 10, those where a corollary relationship reveals numbers that fall below 10, as well as anything equal to or below 5% and anything equal to or above 95%. For academic testing both a 0 and blank indicates no testing took place.

Please note, while this original file continues to exist as a record previously supplied on July 13, 2017, in response to a July 6, 2017, MPIA request, HCPSS reserves the right to remove inaccurate records from our website to stop the spread and use of outdated/incorrect information. The inaccurate data was removed August 21, 2017, to be replaced with a corrected file on the public website for informational purposes, as well as provided to the original requester.

*Some request language is summarized to include the requester's specific document requests and legally protected information (such as personally identifiable information of a student) or personal, defamatory and malicious content removed at the discretion of the school system.

**Responses containing legally protected information available only to the person of interest are omitted from the above report.

***Howard County Public Schools reserves the right to remove erroneous or outdated documents from this site.