Tag: Student rights
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Know Your Rights: Opt-Out of CAASPP State Exams
Know Your Rights! Opt-Out from Exams this Week! Many students are stressed and ridden with anxiety with upcoming AP exams. Did you know you have the right to opt-out of SBACELA, SBACMATHEMATICS, and CALIFORNIA SCIENCE ASSESSMENT? Here is CTA guidelines for students legal right to opt out: https://www.cta.org/optout Opting-out of the testing will NOT impact…
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“Willful Defiance” is Banned from Education Codes! Yet, Schools Use it to Justify Expulsions
Guide to ‘Willful Defiance’: Has your student been accused of ‘willful defiance’? Know that ‘willful defiance’ has been banned from Education Codes! Yet, school administrators use it to justify expulsions for their personal agenda.
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Know Your Rights: Harshly and Unfairly Graded
Education Code 49066 govern grades. Do you believe that the grade your received had a clerical or mechanical mistake, fraud, bad faith, or incompetency? You have a recourse!
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Know Your Rights: Retaliation is an OCR Violation
Discriminatory practices are often only raised and remedied when students, parents, teachers, coaches, and others can report such practices to school administrators without the fear of retaliation. Individuals should be commended when they raise concerns about compliance with the Federal civil rights laws, not punished for doing so.