Parent Collaboration & Engagement
Parents and guardians rights are supported by both state Education Code and District policies. Capistrano Unified policies, along with California Education Code provide opportunties for collaboration and partnership between parents, teachers and administrators. Parents are strongly encouraged to stay informed and engaged.
Parents and guardians can:
Parents and guardians can:
Parents and guardians can:
- Participate in school activities
- Visit your child's classroom to observe instruction
- Participate in school-sponsored activities
- Be informed of their child's academic progress and school performance
- Access and review educational materials
- Examine the curriculum materials and instructional content used in their child's classes
- Inspect and review their child's academic records
- Receive information on academic standards, assessments and student achievement
- Receive notification and be informed
- About your child's academic progress and performance
- School rules and attendance policies
- About significant issues affecting their child's academic or behavioral status
- Your rights and responsibilities under the law
- Support learning at home
- Receive guidance on how to assist your child at home in academic improvement
- Be provided resources to help support learning and behavioral expectations
- Participate in educational decision-making
- Participate in advisory councils (School Site Council, English Learner Advisory Committee, Community Action Council, etc.)
- Be involved in decisions about educational programs and services, especially those funded through the Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP)
- Be consulted in the development of the school's educational goals
- Expect a safe and supportive environment
- Expect that your child learns in a safe, secure, and respectful setting
- Receive updates on bullying prevention and discipline policies
- Request independent study to make up for absensces
- Choose to opt-Out and Consent
- Opt out of certain instructional content (including comprehensive sexual health education)
- Withhold consent for participation in surveys, assessments or data collection not required by law
- Decline participation in certain psychological examinations of your child
- Challenge instructional topics and practices
- Present objections of complaints regarding the handling of issues in the classroom
- Process outlined in BP 6136
- Discuss any concerns with your teacher(s) and principal
QUICK LINKS
QUICK LINKS
QUICK LINKS
- CUSD Parent Partnership Document
- Annual Notice
- Annual Notice (Spanish)
- Student Opt-Out Letter
- Parental Involvement & Rights (CA Ed Code 51100-51102)
- Opt-Out Rights (CA Ed Code 60615)
- Curriculum Access & Opt-Out (CA Ed Code 51931-51938)
- Special Education and Disability Rights
- The "SAFETY Act" (AB 1955)
- AB 1955 does not prohibit educators from voluntarily informing parents about their child's gender identity or orientation. It only prohibits making such disclosures mandatory by policy.
