Filing A CIF Appeal On Sports Denials, How Does The Hearing Process Work?
By Michelle Ball, California Education Attorney for Students since 1995 Has your son or daughter been banned from playing sports by the local CIF office due to an alleged "sports motivated" t ransfer? Is your initial sit-out period being denied on your first change of schools? Or is your child banned for some other reason which you dispute? If so, it may be time to move forward with a formal appeal to the State CIF Appeals Office . How does this process work? How things go with an individual school/site/student can vary, but usually the process starts before most parents realize the seriousness of the situation. Let's take transfer eligibility as our example. Other issues may also be sent to the local CIF office and a similar process would occur. If a parent is lucky, they may be notified that their child's transfer eligibility is being sent up to the local CIF Commissioner. If they are really lucky, they may be notified that ...