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Khan Academy transfers legal and compliance responsibility for parental consent and disclosure obligations to school personnel and institutions rather than retaining it itself.
Interpretive note: The excerpt does not specify which laws or regulations define the required consents or disclosures; the nature of 'appropriate disclosures' is not defined in the quoted text.
Schools and their personnel, not Khan Academy, bear the burden of ensuring parents have consented and that students and parents have received required disclosures.
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Khan Academy transfers legal and compliance responsibility for parental consent and disclosure obligations to school personnel and institutions rather than retaining it itself.
Schools and their personnel, not Khan Academy, bear the burden of ensuring parents have consented and that students and parents have received required disclosures.
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