Sentences with phrase «one's parent union»

Successful parent empowerment means sustained, organized, and ongoing engagement by parents, whether through parent union chapters or otherwise.

As a result, the local parent union is dropping plans for a school - wide take over under the state Parent Trigger law.

The Parent Trigger, and parent unions need to go hand - in - hand, so that parents have real political power to strip failing school districts of their infrastructure.

On this month's Conversation, Editor RiShawn Biddle chats with Connecticut Parents Union President Gwen Samuel and mothers running the Hartford Parents Organization about their efforts to champion school choice and teacher quality reforms in one of Dropout Nation «s States to Watch.

Mymoena Davids, the daughter of NYC Parents Union leader Mona Davids, is the lead plaintiff.

After two years of trying to get changes at the school, and dropping the threatened trigger by the parents at least once, the 20th Street Parents Union filed again last month to take over the school with 57 percent of the families (the parents of 342 students) signing a petition.

Austin is a hard - driving politico from the affluent west side of L.A., and now the unlikely head of Parent Revolution, a mostly Latina advocacy group led by the Los Angeles Parents Union and bankrolled by Broad and charter proponents.

On a recent night in Tujunga, before Parents Union organizer Mary Najera could even begin her pitch, she listened to parents unload at a neighborhood gathering.

Two Desert Trails Parent Union members, Doreen Diaz and Cynthia Ramirez, were involved in promoting the film.

Of those who voted, 80 percent favored the joint operator proposal endorsed by the school's parent union leadership, according to results released by Parent Revolution.

The 24th Street Elementary parent union plans to announce the winner of Tuesday's vote on Wednesday.

Here in Connecticut, the CT Parents Union first became known as the entity that paid the legal fees for the grandmother who illegally enrolled her grandchildren in the Stratford School system.

Parents first started organizing the Desert Trails Parent Union in June 2011, and the union first filed its petition to convert the school into a charter school on Jan. 12.

Under the hybrid plan favored by parent union leaders, all LAUSD employees at the school would have to reapply for their jobs, and parents would get to be a part of the hiring committee.

Two panel discussions will be moderated by President and CEO of the National Association of Public Charter Schools Nina Rees and President of the Connecticut Parents Union Gwen Samuel.

Ramirez, a Desert Trails Parent Union lead coordinator, said her two children will be going back to a non-profit charter at Desert Trails.

(The revelations, by the way, so embarrassed the AFT that it forced national President Randi Weingarten to issue a series of non-apology apologies and meet with Connecticut Parents Union President Gwen Samuel and other activists.)

The 24th Street Elementary School Parents Union steering committee has recommended a «joint operator» in which L.A. Unified and non-profit charter school operator Crown Prep Academy share the duties.

NYC Parents Union founder Mona Davids, who is a plaintiff in the New York suit, said the city gives tenure too easily.

Mona Davids of the NYC Parents Union said she was pleased the council is finally taking up the measure.

When parents organize into independent, autonomous organizations like parent union chapters, they have the power to hold all those within a school district, as well as the school, accountable to serve the interests of their children rather than the interests of adults.

The 24th Street Elementary parent union steering committee recommended that its members vote for a joint operator proposal between the Los Angeles Unified School District and Crown Prep Academy charter school.

In California's first two major parent trigger attempts — first at McKinley Elementary in urban Compton and then at Desert Trails Elementary in the tiny desert town of Adelanto — the efforts driven by parent unions proved divisive and hostile.

Although the Connecticut Parents Union announced that Malloy had committed to the event, the governor's office says he will not be attending.

Parent Revolution is now working with about 15 other California parent unions.

But earlier this month, the New York City Parents Union filed suit separately alleging that Brown's group failed to include scores of minority parents in their complaint.

The next day, Oct. 29, AFT Solidarity 527, a Washington - based committee funded by NYSUT's other parent union, the American Federation of Teachers, also gave $ 100,000 to the DSCC.

Since 2012, it has helped parent unions take over three schools, including two in LAUSD — 24th Street, which was converted into a charter school for grades 5 through 8, and Weigand Avenue Elementary, where parents replaced the principal.

It took the Desert Trails parent union months to track down the houses of other parents at the school — mostly through word of mouth.

Bob White and the auto workers captured the attention of many Canadians by breaking away from their American parent union in 1985 and then leading an inspired campaign against the Mulroney government's proposed free trade agreement with the United States.

Haimson's organization and the NYC Parents Union sued the Education Department and Harlem Success Academy Charter in 2011, claiming that the shared space, which is provided to charters for free, «results in an unequal allocation of funding between charter schools and public schools and inequitable treatment of public school students,» according to the ruling released Tuesday.

Even as the Buffalo Teachers Federation and its statewide parent union challenge the governor's school receivership law in court, Cuomo said he believes the statute will survive the court challenge.

Such attacks are unlikely to be unleashed on Ms. Davids, an unemployed single mother, and the NYC Parents Union because they have been past allies of the UFT regarding parent leadership, supporting the community schools initiative, pushing charter schools to enroll more special ed students, and keeping teacher evaluations private.

Besides its influential teacher union, Taiwan has a powerful parent union that appears to cause at least as much harm as it does good.

In four states, parents have formed parents unions to challenge their school districts and the influence of the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers.

[x] KABC Los Angeles, July 23, 2012: Superior Court Judge Steve Malone ordered the Adelanto School District to accept the petition filed by the Desert Trails Parents Union within 30 days and to immediately seek proposals from charter school operators to take over Desert Trails Elementary School.

Every successful parent union had the backing of the Los Angeles - based Parent Revolution, the nonprofit group formed to promote the law, teach parents how to organize into unions and fund their petition campaigns.

At LAUSD's West Athens and Haddon Avenue elementary schools — where parent unions never got to the stage of gathering signatures for a petition — parents struck deals with school officials for less radical changes.

When the Connecticut Parents Union teamed up with Michelle Rhee's StudentsFirst is when Gov. Dannel P. Malloy decided not to attend a March 14 rally being sponsored by the group.

Members of the 24th Street Elementary School parent union meet at a park near their children's Los Angeles school to discuss the next steps to force a major overhaul of their struggling neighborhood school.

The Desert Trails Parent Union ran its petition campaign with the guidance and financial backing of Parent Revolution, a Los Angeles nonprofit formed to help parents use the trigger law.

Desert Trails Elementary School principal David Mobley, left, is handed 465 signatures representing nearly 70 percent of students from the school by Olivia Zamarripa after a Desert Trails Parent Union press conference where parents hope for a dramatic overhaul of the low performing school while trying to use California's so - called Parent Trigger law at Desert View Elementary School in Adelanto, Calif. (Photo by DAVID PARDO, Victorville Daily Press)

They also wanted to make more of the fledgling Parents Union, a Green Dot spinoff that Barr envisioned as an independent, assertive alternative to the PTA.