June 19, 2017 – Carl Petersen shines a light on the practice of requiring volunteer hours for parents at some California charter schools. By law, “it is not legal nor appropriate for a student to be excluded from a charter school or a school activity because a parent did not volunteer or make a financial contribution to their school.” Petersen also describe how some schools publicly shame families who don’t provide the “encouraged number of hours.” The article mentions the 2014 Public Advocates report “CHARGING FOR ACCESS: How California Charter Schools Exclude Vulnerable Students by Imposing Illegal Family Work Quotas.”
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