Parent Portal for K-12 Schools

COPPA (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act) governs online services directed at children under 13. The portal enforces COPPA defaults: no external behavioural advertising, no third-party tracking pixels, parent consent captured at enrollment per COPPA Section 312.5 with renewable workflow, deletion rights honoured per COPPA Section 312.6, and minimal data collection. The school remains the COPPA data controller; the portal provides the mechanisms a school needs to comply. Many state attorney general guidance prefers self-hosted deployments for K-12 to keep data in district control rather than vendor systems.

Yes. FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act) gives both custodial and non-custodial parents access to education records unless court order specifically removes that right. The portal supports per-parent access configuration: full access (typical custodial), read-only access (typical non-custodial when no restriction), or no access (where court order removes parental rights). Schools document access decisions per FERPA case files; access changes log immutably for FERPA disclosure tracking.

Parents with children at different schools in the same district (an elementary student, a middle schooler, a high schooler) see all children from one login in multi-company / multi-school mode. Switch between children with one tap. The view consolidates attendance, grades, messages, lunch balance, transportation status, and IEP/504 information per child. Replaces the typical 3-5 separate apps that K-12 parents currently juggle (one for grades, one for attendance, one for lunch, one for transportation, one for messaging).

Yes. Per NCES Condition of Education, about 22% of US K-12 students come from non-English-speaking households. The portal translates parent communication into the parent's primary language: Spanish, Mandarin, Vietnamese, Arabic, Tagalog, Korean, Russian, Haitian Creole, Hmong, Portuguese, French, and other common ELL household languages. Translation can be auto (machine translation) for routine messages and curated (district-translated templates) for legal-significance communication (suspension notice, IEP meeting notice, retention notice). Schools meet federal Lau v. Nichols / ESSA Title III meaningful-communication standards from one platform.

For students on IEP or 504 plans, parents access (within FERPA-permitted scope) the active accommodations list, IEP team meeting schedule and minutes, progress-monitoring data on IEP goals (e.g., reading-fluency words-correct-per-minute trend, math-fluency facts-correct-per-minute trend, behavioral data per IEP goal), case-manager contact information, and related-service session logs. Per IDEA Section 614(d)(1)(B), parents are members of the IEP team — having current data in the portal supports informed parent participation. The portal does not replace specialized IEP-management tools (Frontline IEP Direct, SEAS) but ties IEP/504 information to the parent communication workflow.