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FN8.   34 C.F.R. § 99.31.  The school official with a legitimate educational interest exception to FERPA is a powerful FERPA information-sharing tool.  By denoting an outside vendor (permitted under FERPA) to be a school official, any information for which that vendor has a legitimate educational interest may be shared, provided that the vendor takes the same precautions with the information that the college would take.  Outside of this exception, it would be extremely difficult to share education records covered by FERPA with an outside entity.