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This bill creates a new legal pathway for parents to sue public schools and open-enrollment charter schools for specific violations of parental and student rights. Parents can now file civil lawsuits for issues such as violating parental rights laws, failing to involve parents in required matters, not employing required educators, assigning students to consistently low-performing campuses, or breaching other educational code provisions. If successful, parents can recover actual damages, obtain specific performance or injunctive relief, and receive court costs and attorney's fees. Importantly, parents are not required to exhaust administrative remedies before filing suit, and the bill explicitly waives sovereign immunity for these types of legal actions. The bill amends the Education Code to ensure that districts designated as "districts of innovation" cannot exempt themselves from liability under this new section, and it will apply to causes of action that accrue on or after its effective date, which will be either immediately upon receiving a two-thirds legislative vote or September 1, 2025, if that threshold is not met.

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