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Schools under fire from ACLU for 'pay-to-play' athletic fees | California Watch

Schools under fire from ACLU for 'pay-to-play' athletic fees | California Watch

Schools under fire from ACLU for 'pay-to-play' athletic fees

The American Civil Liberties Union is stepping up the pressure on school districts that are violating state law by charging students to participate in athletics and other extracurricular activities.
Last week, ACLU legal director David Blair-Loy sent the San Diego Unified School District a letter asking for officials to stop several examples of "pay to play" that were found at local schools. The group also asked for the money collected to be refunded to the parents.
The request followed a San Diego Union-Tribune investigation that found schools openly charging fees on their

SDSU drunkenness warning an example of stimulus waste, McCain says

In a new report highlighting wasteful stimulus spending, two Republican senators have lambasted a half-million-dollar grant to San Diego State University researchers who are studying whether placing certain health messages on menus might persuade drinkers to imbibe less.
U.S. senators John McCain, R-Ariz., and Tom Coburn, R-Okla., this week put out their third report highlightingwhat they consider 100 examples of misdirected spending on "questionable goals" in the federal government's