Data PrivacyLearning Support : Minnesota Department of Education

Data Privacy

Data Privacy

Information supplied by families on the Application for Educational Benefits is protected by the school as private data. The memorandums on this page contain policies on how this data is used for school meal programs. Other programs authorized by law to use school meal eligibility data are defined.
Commercial Software Used in School Nutrition Programs (SNP)  10Kb (2/10/06)  32Kb (2/10/06)
     Responsibility of school food authorities to ensure data privacy and accuracy of commercial softwares - February 2006 memo.
Privacy of DHS Data Used for Direct Certification - 12/6/2005  9Kb (12/12/05)  33Kb (12/12/05)
    
Prototype Agreement for Sharing Eligibility Info Between Agencies or Programs  103Kb (8/4/05)
    
Use of Meal Eligibility Status for Other Programs - Memos  255Kb (10/27/08)  248Kb (10/27/08)
     Limitations on using School Nutrition Programs data on individual students' approval for free/reduced price meal benefits for other school programs, including No Child Left Behind and the National Assessment of Educational Progress - five memos from September 2003 to September 2008.