Pete Forsyth wrote:
Cracking down on people teaching other people how to write code??
Well, after reading further, it's not as bad as it sounded at first. It looks like
these learn-to-code schools are charging thousands of dollars per student, so there's
potential for abuse, and so at least some reasonable basis for wanting government
oversight.
There's a big list of criteria for exempt institutions here:
http://bppe.ca.gov/lawsregs/ppe_act.shtml#94874
including this:
"(f) An institution that does not award degrees and that solely provides educational
programs for total charges of two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) or less when no
part of the total charges is paid from state or federal student financial aid
programs."
The main law appears to be this:
"94886. Except as exempted in Article 4 (commencing with Section 94874 [quoted
above]) or in compliance with the transition provisions in Article 2 (commencing with
Section 94802), a person shall not open, conduct, or do business as a private
postsecondary educational institution in this state without obtaining an approval to
operate under this chapter."
and here is the definition of "private postsecondary educational institution":
"94858. 'Private postsecondary educational institution' means a private
entity with a physical presence in this state that offers postsecondary education to the
public for an institutional charge."
So, unless the hackathons and editathons are awarding degrees or charging money, I
don't think there's anything to worry about. If there's really some concern,
it might be worth asking a lawyer, but I don't think it's worth arranging a
meeting just for this.
Ben
http://pages.iu.edu/~bkovitz/