Last month, the Department of Education found that California California Assembly Bill 1955 - which prohibits an educational entity from disclosing any student’s sexual orientation or gender identity to any other person without the student’s consent - violates parents’ rights codified in FERPA. Under FERPA, parents have the right to access their children’s “education record,” which contains information about individual students kept by educational institutions. Read more about the investigations by picking up a print issue at a blue newsstand near you, or online at ucsdguardian.org. Story by Isaac Burge Art by Roxana Anayat Design by Sonia McSwain