HIPPA Education Laws for Oklahoma

[luadda]

What is the name of your state? Oklahoma

I need to know how to find out the HIPPA Laws are for Education. My child went to a psychiatric hospital in 2002 for less than 2 weeks (bad reaction to ADHD meds) in October, during that time she was attending a public school. In May of 2005, I was in a teacher conference and noticed on my child's transcript that the psychiatric hospital was the last school attended. My daughter attended the elementary school from pre-school till 5th grade.
I questioned the office staff at the school and the women snickered and told me, "because homework was sent to the hospital my child was considered transferred out and than back into the elementary school, there is nothing that can be done to remove it." I am worried that if this hospital remains on the transcript as last school attended it will "label" my child during middle school.
My question is: Is this legal to put on a transcript? Does this violate the HIPPAA laws on Education??

 

[notsmartmark]

That information would be covered under FERPA. Here are some of the rights that are offered to you under Ferpa:

Under FERPA, a school must:
Consider a request from a parent to amend inaccurate or misleading information in the child's education records;
Offer the parent a hearing on the matter if it decides not to amend the records in accordance with the request;
Offer the parent a right to place a statement to be kept and disclosed with the record if as a result of the hearing the school still decides not to amend the record.
http://www.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/fpco/ferpa/parents.html

I think you don't have grounds under FERPA to have it removed. I think your better opion is to approach the administration. Did she receive credit during the two weeks? If she didn't, does the school need to be on the transcript.
Another idea: is the school name listed on her transcript the real name of the school? Many times the school within a hospital setting can have a different name than the hospital, given it's size. If the school's real name is different than what was listed on her transcript, it would need to be amended at least.