California District Suspends Middle, High School Extracurricular Activities

KNSD-TV San Diego (9/14, Devine) reports that California's Vista Unified School District has suspended all middle and high school extracurricular activities "because the district is no longer paying stipends to the coaches." Under state law, "parents cannot directly pay for students to play, so to speak: They can't pay for uniforms, equipment, coaches or transportation, and can't financially sustain after-school extracurricular activities." Vista Unified's decision "comes in the wake of a suit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union" which claims that "California's cash-strapped school districts have been charging student fees that violate the state constitutional guarantee to a free public education."