Compliance Statement

To be in full compliance with the California Education Code, neither HSC nor the instructors who teach at HSC charge any upfront, out-of pocket fees to parents of charter students.

Examples of these fees are: a class tuition deposit, a registration fee, a hold your seat fee, a membership fee, a reservation fee, a change-your-charter fee, a switch your class fee, a late fee, a defer your payment fee, etc…

We respect and uphold the legal mandate that vendors and learning centers may not charge parents or guardians any additional fees for a charter school student to participate in a charter-funded educational program. Refunding parents after the fact (after receiving a charter purchase order) does not make a fee permissible.

Legal counsel for charter entities have informed us that charging any upfront, out-of-pocket fee(s) would violate CA Ed Code. The integrity of the California public charter school system depends on lawful compliance; those who exploit it by circumventing regulations put the entire system—and those who rely on it—at risk.

(See Ed. Code, § 49011(a) [“A pupil enrolled in a public school shall not be required to pay a pupil fee for participation in an educational activity”]; 5 C.C.R. § 350 [“A pupil enrolled in a school shall not be required to pay any fee, deposit, or other charge not specifically authorized by law”]; Ed. Code, § 49010(b) [a “pupil fee” is a fee, deposit, or other charge imposed on students or their parents or guardians].)

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