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...personal files in grade schools - such as the note citing "homosexual tendencies" that was allegedly inserted in the files of one nine-year-old after he hugged a classmate - Congress passed a law last month allowing parents and students over 18 to examine school records. The so-called Buckley Amendment on student rights was named for the bill's sponsor, Conservative Senator James Buckley of New York...
Steven Wexler, chief counsel for the Senate Subcommittee on Education and the lawyer who helped the Buckley and Pell aides hammer out their agreement on the amendment, said last night that the amendment would...
Staff aides for the co-sponsors of the amendment--Senators James L. Buckley (R-N.Y.) and Claiborne Pell (D-R.I.)-- finished drafting the amendment's final wording in a late-afternoon session yesterday. The senators expect easy passage of the amendment, which will be attached as a rider to a catch-all education bill, spokesmen said...
...agreement on a final draft concluded four weeks of negotiations between the staffs of Buckley, the sponsor of the original files law, and Pell, chairman of the Senate Subcommittee of Education, and will enable the senators to put the changes to a floor vote before Congress recesses...
Staff attorneys for the Children's Defense Fund--a group that lobbied for the Buckley law and has opposed Pell's attempts to amend it--said yesterday that "Wexler's draft" has "undercut" and "screwed over" the original student files law in an effort to "kowtow to places like Harvard...