Education records may be released without consent if:

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The key idea is protecting student privacy by removing identifying details. When every piece of information that could identify a student is stripped away—names, addresses, dates of birth, student IDs, and any data that could link back to an individual—the remaining data can’t be tied to a specific student. In that de-identified form, education records can be shared without parental or student consent because there’s no way to connect the information to a particular person. This is why removing all personally identifiable information is the correct basis for releasing records without consent.

The other options don’t establish that privacy-safe condition. For example, releasing only to parents can happen without consent, but it doesn’t address sharing with third parties or general disclosure. Releasing after the parent’s consent is inconsistent with “without consent.” And a district-wide automatic sharing policy isn’t automatically permissible without consent unless the data is de-identified or falls under a specific exception.