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The Department of Education describes the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act as a federal law affording parents the right to access their children's education records, to seek to have them amended, and to have some control over disclosure of personally identifiable information from those records. It notes that when a student turns 18 or enters a postsecondary institution at any age, those rights transfer from the parent to the student. The statute sits at 20 U.S.C. 1232g and the regulations at 34 CFR Part 99.

If a school itself arranges tutoring, the outside provider is usually brought in under the school official exception. The Department states that FERPA permits schools to outsource institutional services or functions involving disclosure of education records to contractors, consultants, volunteers or other third parties provided the outside party performs a service the school would otherwise use employees for, is under the direct control of the school with respect to use and maintenance of education records, is subject to the requirement that personally identifiable information be used only for the purpose of the disclosure, and meets the criteria in the school's annual notification of FERPA rights. The Department calls a written agreement with the outside organization a best practice.

If you hire the tutor privately, none of that machinery applies, because you are the parent exercising your own access rights and then sharing what you choose. What you hand over is your decision, so hand over what helps and hold back what does not.

Sources: US Department of Education - What is FERPA? · US Department of Education - Student Privacy Frequently Asked Questions · California Commission on Teacher Credentialing - Certificate of Clearance (CL-900)