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Parent Revolution and other parent-involvement education reform groups face a host of challenges as they work to improve their community schools.
Only one week has passed since the California Board of Education finalized the rules that will implement the new Parent Trigger Law, but parent groups are already organizing to put them to the test in their communities, the Los Angeles Times reports. Parent Revolution, one of the groups instrumental to passing the law last year, has identified 120 low-performing schools and sent representatives to the communities serves by those schools in reach out to parents and educate them on their options.
The local organizers will work to sign parents up for chapters of Parents United and offer help in bringing about changes in their schools.
Parent Revolution will offer training, policy ideas and other support. And chapters must pledge to put the interests of children first — taking on ineffective teachers even at the risk of alienating them, for instance, according to Ben Austin, the group’s executive director.
This approach is a change for Parent Revolution, which come about partially because of their first parent-trigger campaign in Compton. The Los Angeles Weekly, which covered the Compton organizing effort, says that critics of Parent Revolution made the group seem like an outsider pushing its own agenda instead of agent of real change. Frank Wells, the spokesman for the California Teachers Association, said “The Parent Trigger law was meant to be a vehicle for a local grassroots movement, as opposed to a vehicle for outside charter groups to sell their organization.” CTA was one of the most vocal “Anti-Trigger” groups. The Compton petition is currently tied up in court.
The new approach means an increased focus on empowering parents and working with local groups. Sign On San Diego reports on a forum, held this Tuesday, organized by Parent Revolution together with a local non-profit Up for Ed.
Dozens of parents turned out at a University Heights coffee shop to learn about the 2010 law and school reform regulations that were finalized by the state last week.
San Diego is just the first stop of a state-wide bus tour sponsored by Parent Revolution in the wake of the finalization of the parent trigger rules.
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[...] Parent Revolution and other parent-involvement education reform groups face a host of challenges as they work to improve their community schools. Read More [...]
Parent Revolution WAS AND IS an outsider pushing its own agenda, instead of a force that ever intended to empower parents.
Before the Compton petition drive, Parent Revolution searched around the state for a school to target, pre-selected the option of charterizing and pre-selected the charter school operator — all before a single parent in Compton ever signed a petition.
That’s not parent empowerment. It’s about empowering and enriching charter school operators.
Despite the millions Parent Revolution possesses to spend on promotion and PR — and despite cheerleading from the unquestioning and gullible press — the Compton petitioning has come to be universally viewed as a sham.
The Los Angeles Times just reported that Parent Revolution is changing its focus, for that reason, and is now trying to organize PTA-like groups in schools rather than duplicate the Compton fiasco.
[...] Current event: In California there is a “Parent Revolution” that will offer training and other supports for parents. They are doing this because they feel that their children are not getting a good education and they think the teachers are being ineffective. http://www.educationnews.org/education-policy-and-politics/calis-parent-trigger-tests-capacity-of-pa… [...]
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