TCPA for Education

In The Republic, Plato says that “the object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.” He also says, “I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.” The communication needs of educational institutions and their third-party associates can often put them into circumstances where “knowing nothing” of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) is less a marker of wisdom and more a precursor to expensive litigation.

The wide variety of different types of educational organizations—public and private, for-profit and non-profit, K-12 and post-secondary, etc.—as well as the specific nature of the various sorts of messages that these organizations communicate to the public can make TCPA compliance particularly complicated.

In this guide, we explain how the following TCPA issues apply specifically to educational organizations:
• How to manage consent and what sorts of messages require which sorts of consent
• Which sorts of risks are inherent to telemarketing for educational organizations
• Which sorts of exemptions to telemarketing statutes are available for educational organizations

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