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Parents at 24th Street Elementary School, with the help of Los Angeles - based education reform group Parent Revolution, will deliver the required signature petition to L.A. Unified officials in downtown on Thursday morning to start the process of taking over the school, according to Parent Revolution officials.

Herbert Hilgado, who has worked closely with the Los Angeles - based education reform group Parent Revolution, which has led the effort to organize parents and help them use California's Parent Trigger law to take over McKinley Elementary School, writes in his complaint:

Parents and paid organizers with the Los Angeles - based education reform group Parent Revolution managed to work mostly under the radar while gathering signatures from some 60 percent of parents whose children attend McKinley Elementary School.

However Mark Lehain, director of the education reform group Parents and Teachers for Excellence (PTE), said the government still has «plenty to be getting on with».

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The video is a part of the group's grassroots and digital #ForOpportunity campaign to bring together parents advocating for fundamental reform to fix New York's broken education system.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Chandra M. Hayslett, Communications Director [email protected] 212-257-4350 New Yorkers Overwhelmingly Want Deal on New Teacher Evaluation System New Poll Shows Robust and Resilient Support; No Excuse Seen for Losing $ 300 million New York (Nov. 29, 2012)-- A new teacher evaluation system that would ensure that New York City received $ 300 million in additional State education funding enjoys overwhelming support among City voters in general and parents in particular, according to a new poll released today by StudentsFirstNY, the education reform advocacy group, and conducted by Anzalone Liszt Research.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

Among today's advocates for young people are nonprofit insurgent groups that challenge the education establishment by organizing, educating, and mobilizing parents in a variety of roles and in different ways, empowering them to engage in K — 12 reform efforts.

Ben Austin, director of the Los Angeles based organization leading the parent trigger movement, notes that his group, Parent Revolution, is pro-charter but «unambiguously» opposed to vouchers, providing evidence, says Butcher, that «student - and parentcentric reforms» draw support from parents with diverse views on education rparent trigger movement, notes that his group, Parent Revolution, is pro-charter but «unambiguously» opposed to vouchers, providing evidence, says Butcher, that «student - and parentcentric reforms» draw support from parents with diverse views on education rParent Revolution, is pro-charter but «unambiguously» opposed to vouchers, providing evidence, says Butcher, that «student - and parentcentric reforms» draw support from parents with diverse views on education reform.

Advocacy Groups Empower Parents to Act as Catalysts for School Reform A growing number of nonprofit organizations bypass PTAs to force change in public education

This is a group of parents who want to work together to strengthen public education and restore common sense reforms.

Katie Roy, the Connecticut Council for Education Reform's Chief Operating Officer also presented to the group of local school administrators, teachers and parents.

Besides visiting classrooms, the group also had closed meetings with teachers, administrators and parents, where they were expected to discuss Obama's education reform initiatives.

She has spoken to parent groups, teachers, administrators, business leaders and policy makers on a range of issues: education reform, early childhood and adolescent literacy, conflict and tolerance, and the value of parental involvement in education.

Some groups, like the Center for Education Reform, remain committed to the idea that parents should be able to choose the schools they think best meets the needs of their child.

As the countdown begins for the first annual Summer of Transforming Education fundraising campaign for grassroots reform groups coming this Memorial Day, watch this month's On the Road podcast featuring Connecticut Parents Union President (and Dropout Nation Contributing Editor) Gwen Samuel's testimony before the U.S. House Education and the Workforce Committee.

The educational establishment — school boards, teachers unions and other special interest groups, dubbed the «Government Education Complex» by Bruno Behrend, director of the Center for School Reform at The Heartland Institute, don't like the law since it allows a group of parents to trump their power.

They dismissed the parent - trigger law as a way for national education reform groups to exert their influence at a local level.

On the eve of a potentially catastrophic Board of Education vote to turnaround ten more Chicago schools, the school reform research group Designs for Change has released a report showing that school turnarounds are not worth the extra expense, and that the unheralded reforms brought about under the authority of parent - led, democratically - elected local school councils have been far more effective.

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Schools Week understands one such campaign, the StudentsFirst movement in America — an education reform group that pledged to empower parents — had «impressed» PTE's strategists as the «right way to take the debate to ordinary people».

Truth in American Education (TAE) is a national, non-partisan group of concerned parents and citizens who question the Race to the Top (RTTT) and the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and much more concerning school reform.

This year, the superPAC has been funded primarily by the Firefighters union but in July, the superPAC received a $ 28,000 contribution from the advocacy arm of Michelle Rhee's education reform group, Parents and Teachers for Putting StudentsFirst.

And for all the education reform rhetoric around trusting and empowering families, Moskowitz depicts parents who protest her plans as having been «shamelessly exploited» and «manipulated» by teacher unions and union - backed groups.

Parent trigger is the latest flashpoint in the wars over «education reform» (a term now claimed by right - wing front groups, defensive teachers» unions and activists of many stripes).

While Malloy is touring the state claiming that his goal is to «win back» the respect of teachers, parents and public school advocates, later this week, Commissioner Pryor and SDE Turnaround Director Morgan Barth will be handing the microphone over to the Connecticut Council for Education Reform, a corporate funded lobby group that has spent over $ 160,000 lobbying on behalf of Malloy's «education reform» inEducation Reform, a corporate funded lobby group that has spent over $ 160,000 lobbying on behalf of Malloy's «education reform» initiReform, a corporate funded lobby group that has spent over $ 160,000 lobbying on behalf of Malloy's «education reform» ineducation reform» initireform» initiative.

Faced with the potential that their hand - picked private vendor would not be selected by the local community, the Mayor of Hartford, the Hartford Board of Education, corporate education reform industry advocacy groups AND the Malloy Administration conspired to concoct a strategy that effectively eliminated appropriate parent invEducation, corporate education reform industry advocacy groups AND the Malloy Administration conspired to concoct a strategy that effectively eliminated appropriate parent inveducation reform industry advocacy groups AND the Malloy Administration conspired to concoct a strategy that effectively eliminated appropriate parent involvement.

Since Malloy introduced his «Education Reform» agenda, the charter school industry and the corporate funded «education reform» advocacy groups have hired dozens of lobbyists and spent nearly $ 7 million, or more, to «persuade» Connecticut officials to adopt policies that are diametrically opposed to what is in the best interests of Connecticut students, parents, teachers and public schooEducation Reform» agenda, the charter school industry and the corporate funded «education reform» advocacy groups have hired dozens of lobbyists and spent nearly $ 7 million, or more, to «persuade» Connecticut officials to adopt policies that are diametrically opposed to what is in the best interests of Connecticut students, parents, teachers and public school sReform» agenda, the charter school industry and the corporate funded «education reform» advocacy groups have hired dozens of lobbyists and spent nearly $ 7 million, or more, to «persuade» Connecticut officials to adopt policies that are diametrically opposed to what is in the best interests of Connecticut students, parents, teachers and public schooeducation reform» advocacy groups have hired dozens of lobbyists and spent nearly $ 7 million, or more, to «persuade» Connecticut officials to adopt policies that are diametrically opposed to what is in the best interests of Connecticut students, parents, teachers and public school sreform» advocacy groups have hired dozens of lobbyists and spent nearly $ 7 million, or more, to «persuade» Connecticut officials to adopt policies that are diametrically opposed to what is in the best interests of Connecticut students, parents, teachers and public school system.

In what may well be the most incredible and absurd defense of the Common Core SBAC test written to date, the Executive Director of the Connecticut Council for Education Reform, a corporate funded front group for the Common Core and Charter Schools recently published an article entitled, «For Parents, Testing is an Opportunity.»

Not only do these «education reform» groups support the Common Core and the Common Core testing fiasco, they actively oppose the fundamental and inalienable right of parents to opt their children out of the SBAC tests.

Making the situation even more disgusting, in an effort to cover - up the privatization strategy, the Malloy administration, Hartford Mayor Pedro Segarra and the corporate education reform groups are trying to make it appear that the whole effort to close down the turnaround committee process is simply a response to «service» the Clark parents.

The gory details will continue to leak out in the coming days, but the strategy reached its zenith today when these education reform groups handed out flyers instructing Clark Parents to meet late tomorrow afternoon at that Clark School, don tee - shirts and march to the Hartford Board of Education meeting to demand the Hartford Board of Education approve Friendship before the state withdraws the $ 1.5 million needed to help improve theieducation reform groups handed out flyers instructing Clark Parents to meet late tomorrow afternoon at that Clark School, don tee - shirts and march to the Hartford Board of Education meeting to demand the Hartford Board of Education approve Friendship before the state withdraws the $ 1.5 million needed to help improve theiEducation meeting to demand the Hartford Board of Education approve Friendship before the state withdraws the $ 1.5 million needed to help improve theiEducation approve Friendship before the state withdraws the $ 1.5 million needed to help improve their school.

Throughout Florida's legislative session, education reform groups and teachers» unions have done battle over proposals to pass a very controversial «parent trigger» law.

It was strongly supported by Buffalo ReformED, an upstate education reform group that wants to implement a local parent trigger law patterned after California's.

CABE and CAPSS are two examples of groups that are funded in large part by taxpayer funds but rather than spend their resources protecting Connecticut's public school students, parents, teachers, school administrators and taxpayers they are kowtowing to an increasingly unpopular governor and his increasingly unpopular so - called «education reforms.»

While Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy, his Commissioner of Education, Department of Education and a group of Connecticut superintendents continue to lie and mislead parents about their fundamental right to opt their children out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium SBAC testing scheme, parents in Connecticut and across the country are stepping up to protect their children from the corporate education reform industry's Common Core testEducation, Department of Education and a group of Connecticut superintendents continue to lie and mislead parents about their fundamental right to opt their children out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium SBAC testing scheme, parents in Connecticut and across the country are stepping up to protect their children from the corporate education reform industry's Common Core testEducation and a group of Connecticut superintendents continue to lie and mislead parents about their fundamental right to opt their children out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium SBAC testing scheme, parents in Connecticut and across the country are stepping up to protect their children from the corporate education reform industry's Common Core testeducation reform industry's Common Core testing scam.