Sentences with phrase «parenting revolution»

So proudly in the fall of 2009, after no one had organized twin parents, Natalie got on a soap box and started a twin parenting revolution called Twiniversity.

If you've been reading my blog for a while, then you probably do know about this parenting revolution.

Businesses can not afford to ignore the parenting revolution that millennials want to see and the PM won't succeed in his vision of eliminating the gender pay gap unless we see a more equal sharing of parental duties as the new norm.

Ana L. Flores is co-founder of SpanglishBaby, the award - winning blog and online community for parents raising bilingual and bicultural kids, as well as co-author of the book, Bilingual is Better: Two Latina Moms on How the Bilingual Parenting Revolution is Changing the Face of America.

Making the case for the parent trigger is Ben Austin, executive director of Parent Revolution and former deputy mayor of Los Angeles.

We hired Parent Revolution to work with our team to help find those placements for students and made sure other charters could recruit our teachers early.

Championed by California - based Parent Revolution, and adopted first by California in early 2010, more than a half - dozen states now have parent trigger laws.

On Friday, July 26, Rep. George Miller (D - CA) took part in a media call with Ben Austin of Parent Revolution, a nonprofit dedicated to organizing parent trigger campaigns, and other parents to celebrate National Parents Day (July 28) and the efforts of parents to exercise their voice under parent trigger laws.

Parent Revolution sued, and a county judge ruled that the board's action was illegal; it could only verify signatures, not give parents a chance to remove them.

Parent Revolution organized a trigger petition and obtained signatures from a majority of Desert Trails» parents.

When the California Parent Empowerment Act — known for its parent trigger provision — became law in 2010, the Los Angeles - based nonprofit Parent Revolution had achieved one of its key legislative goals.

Eventually, the board reached a consensus on many issues, including how to draw up petitions and verify signatures, satisfying groups as diverse as Parent Revolution and the California Teachers Association.

Parent Revolution created the parent trigger based on our conclusion that the public education system is failing because it's not designed to succeed.

Parent Revolution has launched parent trigger campaigns in two California schools: McKinley Elementary in Compton and Desert Trails Elementary in Adelanto.

Despite widespread community support, especially from African American and Latino parents, Parent Revolution has harsh detractors.

When the California Parent Empowerment Act — known for its parent trigger provision — became law in 2010, the Los Angeles — based nonprofit Parent Revolution had achieved one of its key legislative goals.

One of Pastor Allison's colleagues — Pastor K. W. Tulloss of Weller Street Baptist Church in Los Angeles — is the board chair of Parent Revolution.

This piece limits its focus to three organizations that use parent mobilization and advocacy to catalyze district sector and charter sector reform: Parent Revolution, Education Reform Now, and Stand for Children.

Parent Revolution, Education Reform Now, and Stand for Children Leadership Center are 501 (c)(3) grantees of the Walton Family Foundation; the opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the author.

(As this article goes to press, Parent Revolution has helped parents pull the trigger in a third school, 24th Street Elementary in the Los Angeles Unified School District, and a fourth campaign is underway.)

These strategies eventually succeeded: the effort fizzled, and Parent Revolution lobbied the state board of education to tighten its regulations in an attempt to prevent such tactics from prevailing the next time around.

Parent Revolution organized the first campaign to «pull» the parent trigger in a Los Angeles — area district, using its staff to work with a field team of parents under the banner of McKinley Parents for Change.

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 reform.

Parent Revolution obtained 62 percent of school parents» signatures asking for conversion of McKinley Elementary School — a K - 5 school that is 60 percent Hispanic and 40 percent African American and ranks in the bottom 10 percent of schools statewide — to a charter school.

Parent Revolution supports parents in transforming their children's schools through community organizing.

They include Parent Revolution in California, Education Reform Now (ERN), which has nine state affiliates, and Stand for Children, which has national offices in Oregon and Massachusetts and affiliates in nine additional states.

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.

In the Winter 2012 issue of Ed Next, Bruno Manno wrote about the growing number of advocacy groups that empower parents to take active roles in promoting school improvement in their communities, including Parent Revolution, which has helped California parents organize to pull the «parent trigger.»

The panelists were an all - star lineup of Parent Revolution's Ben Austin, Derrell Bradford of Better Education for Kids, and Kenya Bradshaw of Stand for Children.

Over the past three decades, mayors such as Richard Riordan and Antonio Villaraigosa have fought to place reform - minded players on the district's school board, while grassroots reformers such as Green Dot Public Schools founder Steve Barr and the group that is now known as Parent Revolution have successfully forced L.A. Unified to start an effort to spin off over 200 of its traditional public schools into charter school operators and grassroots groups.

On December 7, 2010, with help from the non-profit group Parent Revolution, parents of children attending McKinley Elementary in Compton became the first group of parents to pull the parent trigger.

Fidelia Muralles, a mother of four who was active with Parent Revolution in its attempt to take over South Los Angeles» 20th Street Elementary School, said she was saddened and disappointed by the Supreme Court's decision.

Ben Austin, former executive director of Parent Revolution who is working for an independent expenditure committee supporting reform candidate Melvoin, said he hears parents talking about this issue when he drops his daughters off at school.

It could have also talked to Parent Power activists on the ground — from Gwen Samuel of the Connecticut Parents Union to Parent Revolution's Gabe Rose — about the efficacy of the provisions in each state.

That's apparently what happend at a recent New Organizing Institute event when members of the AFT and Parent Revolution both showed up and — I'm speculating here — didn't much want to be put at the same table brainstorming ideas together.

«The basic reason why it happened when it did was that things got so bad in Los Angeles that parents began looking around and recognized that no one is coming to their rescue,» says Ben Austin of Parent Revolution, the Los Angeles — based organization leading the movement (see «Not Your Mother's PTA,» features, Winter 2012).

«We are living in a revolutionary moment where the public as well as policymakers are open to thinking in new ways about issues in a way that hasn't happened in a generation,» says Parent Revolution's Austin.

Parent Revolution's Austin says lawmakers are considering ideas today that in the not - so - distant past would have been considered outrageous.

More than a dozen local Parent Revolution groups have formed in California, and in June 2011, Time magazine reported Parent Revolution advocates were at work as far away as Buffalo, New York.

(See Parent Revolution and Bruno Manno's new Ed Next story, Not Your Mother's PTA)

Author Bio: Ben Austin is executive director of Parent Revolution and former deputy mayor of Los Angeles.

There has since been a second Parent Trigger attempt, also led by Parent Revolution, at another California school, Desert Trails Elementary in Adelanto, in early 2012.

Parent Revolution looked around the state for a school to target, chose McKinley and pre-selected a charter school operator called Celerity to take it over.

[iii] Parent Revolution has a $ 1 million annual budget and 10 full - time staff members.

Actually, Parent Revolution was created by charter school operator Steve Barr, who founded the Green Dot charter school chain.

The organization that created the parent trigger, Parent Revolution, organized both of those campaigns.

But that attempt failed, and it was orchestrated not by parents but by an outside organization: Parent Revolution, founded by charter school operator Steve Barr and funded by wealthy foundations.

The current status of the parent trigger at Desert Trails in Adelanto is that Parent Revolution is seeking a charter operator to take over the school, although many parents have said that they don't want the school to become a charter.

The district created a clumsy signature verification process that Parent Revolution branded intimidation.

Reality: The Parent Trigger attempt at McKinley Elementary School was entirely orchestrated by outsiders — the staff of Parent Revolution, the Los Angeles organization that first proposed the legislation that created the Parent Trigger.