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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A state Education Department attorney says the errant posting of some elementary student test scores on an administrator's personal website likely violated federal law.
The Des Moines Register reports (http://dmreg.co/1Vjgleg ) that the Lovejoy Elementary scores were available on Karen Catron's website. She used the site to share information with professors in completing a master's degree at Drake University. An aunt of one of the children alerted school officials after she found his name and scores when she searched for him on the Internet.
The newspaper contacted Catron, who didn't comment but did change her website settings so the material was no longer available to the public. She's a dean at Cattell Elementary.
Education Department attorney Nicole Proesch says the posting likely violated the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act.
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