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...become increasingly commonplace. Today, teachers and guidance counselors record and dispense more and more personal information-much of it unsubstantiated -about students and their families. The widespread misuse of school records will soon be slowed by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act sponsored by New York Senator James Buckley, which was signed into law last week by President Ford as part of the Elementary and Secondary Education Bill. Buckley's legislation denies federal funds to any school or college that fails to allow parents to inspect, challenge and refuse public use of their children's school records...
...Senator Buckley was not the first to try to remedy the unwarranted conclusions and the invasions of personal and family privacy made possible by total school control over student records. The National Committee for Citizens in Education, headquartered in Columbia, Md., prepared a state-by-state guide of school policies in order to inform parents where they stand and what action they can take if denied access to student records...
...midst of a recent radio interview by Liberal Columnist Nat Hentoff, William F. Buckley Jr., the elegantly acerbic conservative commentator, suddenly stopped short the colloquy, looked down, and testily muttered, "Shut up." Moments later he paused and clonked something below. Left-wing kibitzers in the studio audience? No, Buckley's target was his King Charles spaniel Rowley, which he had brought to the studio. Showing that he bore no ill will, Rowley then jumped into Buckley's .lap and planted a slurpy kiss on his cheek. All of which left Hentoff with somewhat more of an interview than...
...James Buckley (R-N.Y.) introduced the school files provision as an amendment to the education bill. The House of Representatives originally rejected the provision, but later accepted the Senate House conference version of the bill...
...This doctrine] leaves the country without the means to assure responsible self-government in certain contingencies," Columnist William F. Buckley Jr. pointed out last week. "There are any number of activities, not formally proscribed by the law, which a President could legally undertake at indescribable cost to the Republic." Buckley imagined a number of fanciful actions for which a President should be indicted, such as commuting the sentences of all federal prisoners or taking a six-month vacation. Notwithstanding such reductio ad absurdum, Buckley says, the principle remains: "Congress has got to retain the right to pass judgment on gross...