{"id":127299,"date":"2022-06-29T09:15:53","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T13:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=127299"},"modified":"2022-06-28T15:39:06","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T19:39:06","slug":"parents-charged-thousands-of-dollars-for-school-information-requests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=127299","title":{"rendered":"Parents charged thousands of dollars for school information requests"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Parents have come forward with stories that they were charged thousands of dollars for public requests made to their respective schools. These requests involve school curriculum and other public records request related to what the school is doing. One of these schools charged a mother $74,000 for her request to review school curriculum.<\/p>\n

From Fox News:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

“I received an estimate for, say, $80 for information that I requested,” Nicole Solas said. “And then when I requested similar information, a month later, the price skyrocketed to $2,600. So schools will charge you whatever price they want to charge you. So that way you’re not going to know what your kids are learning in school.”<\/p>\n

Solas argued that public information is not public if it cost money to obtain it and that schools are trying to create “barriers” to make it accessible.<\/p>\n

Parents around the United States are being charged tens of thousands of dollars, including some fees into the millions, for public records requests in their school districts, Fox News Digital has learned.<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital spoke with parents around the county — such as in Michigan, Oregon, and Rhode Island — as well as with public records experts who said they believed schools were using exorbitant fees in order to price parents out of the information they are legally entitled to, such as those related to curriculum.<\/p>\n

A parent from Frederick County Public Schools in Maryland told Fox News Digital that she requested emails that spanned one month between various entities and was asked to pay $5,000. “I never got the [records] because that’s well beyond what I’m willing to pay for information my tax dollars already paid for,” she said. FCPS was contacted for comment but did not immediately respond.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fox News has the article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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