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...Buckley, it was pointed out, circulated the amendment to his Senate colleagues four days before it was adopted on the Senate floor--with no debate. There were no hearings in committee session to weigh its merits or hammer out its wording. Fact is, as higher-ups around Mass Hall tell it, Buckley himself knew few details of the rider when contacted several days after its passage...
Kwapisz, however, insists that Buckley's office knew what it was doing. He openly admits that the amendment "was primarily drafted" to end complaints by parents on the primary and secondary school level that false or harmful information in files "followed children, uncontested, all the rest of their lives, whether in getting into schools or in finding jobs...
...Buckley staff, Kwapisz says, did not have the empirical studies and records to outline the problem in higher education, as it did on the lower levels. "But we did have evidence in universities of abuses--abuses cited by the student American Medical Association, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Citizens Committee for Education, the Childrens Defense Fund and other groups...
...lobbyists drafted position papers for the six higher education groups opposing the bill in Washington, when, as participants in informal sessions aimed at delaying the bill have reported, the Cambridge emissaries to the Hill "took the lead among the country's schools" in fighting to kill the bill, Buckley's staff refused to budge--as some had expected. Buckley did agree to try to "amend his amendment" to exempt past recommendation letters from inspection and enable students to waive their rights to see their files. But the bill will go into law without delay, Kwapisz says...
...Buckley amendment" is one of a series of attempts to stem this massive invasion of privacy, by granting students access to their school files and some control over both what goes into the file and who gets...