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Butte County Grand Jury • 2004-2005

Student Fees at Chico Senior High

Published: July 08, 2005 6 pages

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Findings 5 findings

Substituting the word "donation" for fee and requiring donations continues to leave CHS in a position of questionable legal compliance.

CHS is asking students to identify if they are the recipient of free or reduced lunch when applying for fee (donation) waivers.

The current system of funding curricular activities through ASB dollars inadvertently puts educators in a position of having purchasing power and requiring them to be responsible for and account for student funds. The Grand Jury believes this cannot help but undermine the quality of education teaching time in the classroom and generates the possibility of teachers inadvertently violating California law.

The process of raising money and soliciting donations still remains connected to individual students as their responsibility; this is not consistent with a free public education/non-fee-based curriculum.

Teachers believe that a quality curriculum cannot be provided without ASB funds being transferred into their district classroom accounts.

Recommendations 10

R1

CUSD should establish a district-wide policy for handling donations to classrooms that is not fee based and does not create the appearance that it is the student's responsibility to fund his/her own learning experience.
R2

Donations should not be tracked by student name/ID number, since this policy allows staff to have information on who has donated and who has not.
R3

The purchase price of the bus bought by CUSD for ACT with ASB funds should be restored by CUSD to the ACT account. This bus is clearly owned by CUSD and has never benefited the students who raised the money.
R4

Since school libraries can account for books checked out and SLC ACT is unable to track inventory and issue equipment on a daily basis needed for classroom activities, all inventories should be moved to the library until a proper checkout procedure can be established in the classroom. 37 2004-2005 BUTTE COUNTY GRAND JURY
R5

Fee waivers should not have to be given or have to be requested for students not wishing to donate to their respective SLC or classroom.
R6

Chico High should immediately stop charging mandatory classroom fees as in Glass Design and Advanced Glass Design.
R7

Refunds should be provided to families who have paid fees that are not specifically authorized by law. All future fees or requests for funds should include a justification that the charge is a legal fee. Writing and drawing paper, pens, inks, blackboard, blackboard erasers, crayons, lead pencils, and other necessary supplies for the use of the schools, shall be furnished under direction of the governing boards of the school district.
R8

CHS should abide by the district adopted Fiscal Crisis Management Assistance Team, referred to as FCMAT, student body manual, Associated Student Body Accounting Manual, particularly the recommendation that maintenance costs of district owned equipment should not be paid for with ASB money.
R9

All donations collected on campus should be paid to the comptroller and deposited into ASB accounts.
R10

One wishing to donate to CHS Foundation via the NVCF should send any monies directly to the NVCF. They should not be collected on campus or associated with student fundraising. Responses Required (Penal Code § 933 & 933.05) Board of Education CUSD Principal CHS Superintendent CUSD 38 2004-2005 BUTTE COUNTY GRAND JURY Exhibit A Dear Parent, Your student has requested a fee be waived for one of his/her classes at Chico High School. In order to do this we need some information from you. Please complete the fee waiver below and return it to Chico High School Comptroller's Office, 901 The Esplanade, Chico, CA 95926. If you have any questions, please contact Robyn at 891-3032. CHICO HIGH SCHOOL APPLICATION FOR CLASS FEE WAIVER 2004/2005 ID#: _____