SFist reporter Caleb Pershan on the licensing of coding “boot camps” in California and efforts by consumer and public advocates to make sure the for-profit companies deliver on their promises to prospective students.
In 2014, a task force began meeting on the subject of coding schools, and eventually it recommended that coding programs receive “an expedited approval process for coding boot camps.” “These are untested programs,” Angela Perry, a law fellow at San Francisco civil rights law firm Public Advocates, told the Chronicle. “Most approvals are delayed because schools make errors in filling out their paperwork. We think that should raise a red flag.”
However, “There’s nothing inherently wrong with coding boot camps,” Perry went on. “We just want to make sure if a student is investing $10,000 or $20,000 for a 10- or 12-week program, they are getting the services that are promised.”
