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}Privacy Technical Assistance Center (PTAC)
◦Website: http://nces.ed.gov/programs/ptac/ 
◦Based out of NCES
◦Role: provide timely and accurate information and guidance about data privacy, confidentiality, and security issues
◦A “Privacy Toolkit”
◦PTAC HelpDesk to submit questions
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The Department has established a Privacy Technical Assistance Center (PTAC) which serves as a one‐stop resource for the P‐20 education community on privacy, confidentiality and data security. PTAC is a resource for State educational agencies (SEAs), LEAs, the postsecondary community and other parties engaged in building and using education data systems. It is based out of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) and its work is overseen by the Privacy Advisory Committee, which, in addition to the Chief Privacy Officer is comprised of senior leadership from other areas of the Department, such as NCES, the Office of the Chief Information Officer, the Family Policy Compliance Office, the Office of the General Counsel, and the Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development.
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PTAC’s role is to provide timely and accurate information and guidance about data privacy, confidentiality, and security issues and practices in education; disseminate this information to the field and the public; and provide technical assistance to key stakeholders.
A “Privacy Toolkit” – The toolkit will include a list of FAQs; a library of commonly‐cited resources related to data privacy, confidentiality and security; checklists of important items to include in data governance plans and data security plans; FERPA guidance developed by the Family Policy Compliance Office; SLDS Technical Briefs (discussed below); and short issue briefs on key privacy topics. The toolkit will be available online as well as distributed at conferences and through mailed thumb drives. This toolkit will be the cornerstone of the information that PTAC will provide to education agencies to use in developing a roadmap to ensure better safeguarding of information, that data are used responsibly and that all who have access to it are held accountable for its proper use and security.
Help Desk – The PTAC help desk is a centralized location for education stakeholders to submit questions to the Department on privacy, confidentiality and data security issues. The process for submitting questions to PTAC involves calling a toll‐free number, emailing or mailing a question.