The "Parents Bill of Rights Act" obligates schools to provide parents with access to information regarding school budget and spending, promoting financial transparency in educational institutions.

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The "Parents Bill of Rights Act" obligates schools to provide parents with access to information regarding school budget and spending, promoting financial transparency in educational institutions.

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This bill clarifies that parents have a right to know what is happening in their child’s school and maintain the right to make decisions about their child’s education. This bill ensures five commonsense principles are met by our schools: 1. Parents have the right to know what's being taught; 2. Parents have the right to be heard; 3. Parents have the right to see the school budget and spending; 4. Parents have the right to protect their child’s privacy; and 5. Parents have the right to be updated on any violent activity at school.
Specifically, the bill requires schools to notify parents and guardians of their rights regarding the education of their children. These rights include the right to review (and make copies of at no cost) the curriculum of their child's school; know if the state alters its challenging academic standards; meet with each teacher of their child at least twice each school year; review the budget, including all revenues and expenditures, of their child's school; inspect the books and other reading materials in the library of their child's school; address the school board of the LEA; receive information about violent activity in their child's school; and know if their child is not grade-level proficient in reading or language arts at the end of 3rd grade. Additional rights include the right to receive information about any plans to eliminate gifted and talented programs or college credit programs in their child's school; know the total number of school counselors in their child's school; know if their child's school operates, sponsors, or facilitates athletic programs or activities that permit an individual whose biological sex is male to participate in an athletic program or activity that is designed for individuals whose biological sex is female; know if their child's school allows an individual whose biological sex is male to use restrooms or changing rooms designated for individuals whose biological sex is female; and receive timely information about any major cyberattack against their child's school.

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H.R. 5, Parents Bill of Rights Act