'Unions' Empower Parents To Push For Education Reform

Monday, October 10, 2011 'Unions' Empower Parents To Push For Education Reform LOS ANGELES — Shoehorned into a small living room in a South Los Angeles apartment, a dozen parents discuss why their kids' school ranks as one of the worst in the nation's second-largest school district. The answers come quickly: Teachers are jaded; gifted pupils aren't challenged; disabled students are isolated; the building is dirty and office staff treat parents disrespectfully. THE PROMISE Alabama Immigrants Fearing Deportation Make Plans For Children Brown Vetoes SB 185: Affirmative Action-Like Bill Denied Education Funding In Most States Below Pre-Recession Levels PHOTOS: Meet The Young Adults Charged With Turning Around LA Schools BLOG POSTS Robert Niles: Why I Send My Children to Public Schools I don't believe in the people who are attacking our public schools. Sending my children to public schools is the ultimate sign of support, and helps keep me more deeply involved in a precious public resource that needs, and deserves, our support. John Thompson: What Moneyball Can Teach Us About Education Change has been just as slow in baseball as in education, but only in education does the simplistic faith in numbers still dominate. Marian Wright Edelman: A Parent, Community, and National Audit: It's Time for Adults to Shape up and Close the Hypocrisy Gap I urge every parent and adult to conduct a personal audit to examine whether we are contributing to the crisis so many of our children face or to the solutions they urgently need. Abdul Malik Mujahid: Thank You, Steve Jobs, From a Muslim Innovator I thank God for the idea and thank Steve for enabling me to do it. As Prophet Muhammad has said, one cannot be grateful to God unless he or she is thankful to people. Reshma Saujani: The American DREAM No facet of our country's immigration debate is more heartless or economically foolish than our failure to support undocumented children who have grown up on American soil.

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