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West Virginia — W. Va. Code §18-2-5h (student data accessibility, transparency and accountability)
West Virginia's student-data governance statute: a public data inventory, state-board data governance and security duties, parental notice and access rights, and prohibitions on collecting listed categories of student information.
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| STUDENT-DATA.md | §18-2-5h in full |
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Related
- SC §59-1-490 — the closest sibling
- US FERPA — the federal layer