• Read the text of the bill. (PDF)
• Send an email to the bill's author. (Be sure to title your e-mail "Oppose AB 2361")

CAPSO finds this bill to be highly objectionable. For one, the bill implies that private school employees and/or board members are categorically more likely than other parentally selected representatives (e.g. physicians, psychologists, physical therapists, attorneys, child advocates) to subordinate the best interests of the children they have been asked to help, to other non-descript interests.

As if this weren't enough, the bill assumes the possibility of conflict of interest were a board member of a private high school to serve as a parentally invited representative on an IEP committee for a first grader. Such "logic" smacks of hostility to private education.

At its core, the bill seeks to deprive private school children with special needs of equal protection of the law by singling them out for the imposition of limitations upon persons deemed eligible to represent their interests.