As public school parents, citizens and taxpayers, we deserve to have our voices heard when it comes to the future of our children.
49 % of
public school parents say standardized tests don't measure aspects of their child's education that are important to them personally.
The question is: do these same sorts of values and beliefs seem to be relevant for
public school parents who, given the choice, would be interested in switching to private schools?
The number was even higher
among public school parents, where the split was nearly 70 percent for the union and just 22 percent for the mayor.
The parents usually have to make sure they are active participants in their children's education, which is not always the case
with public school parents and or the community at large.
In other findings, a majority of
public school parents oppose the closing of «failing» schools and allowing some students to opt out of standardized tests.
Public school parents continue to give very high grades to the schools their children attend, with nearly 75 percent of parents giving their school an A or a B.
More
Latino public school parents (61 %) than white parents (42 %) said they have received information about how to become involved with the plan.
I assume he was just trying to score political point with the accountability folks and
public school parents since no useful results could have been provided.
Most public school parents, in turn, said they were very (53 percent) or somewhat (38 percent) interested in becoming involved in developing the local accountability plan.
Public school parents continue to have trust and confidence in teachers, and the majority of parents believe their child has substantially higher well - being because of the school he or she attends.
My name is Tenicka Boyd and I am the Senior Director of Organizing for StudentsFirstNY and a New York City
public school parent in Brooklyn.
Moderated by NYCAN Executive Director Derrell Bradford, the panel featured leaders in the education reform movement as well as
public school parents from across the state.
Samuel L. Radford III, a
Buffalo Public Schools parent activist who also works for the Community Action Organization, said it's possible the numbers reflect the fact that more poor families are being pushed out beyond the city limits; that with the gentrification of the city, poverty is becoming less concentrated and more diluted.
New York City has settled a federal lawsuit filed in 2016
by public school parents who charged that school violence and bullying were not being adequately addressed.
More than 200
public school parents joined with StudentsFirstNY and prominent clergy leaders today to demand that Mayor Bill de Blasio rethink his decision to force unwanted teachers into New York City schools.
In an interview, Mr. Walcott said that he had «a great relationship» with the school board president, Yehuda Weissmandl, but that the fragile condition of the district and the level of mistrust of the board among
public school parents made it vital to have a monitor with veto power.
Drawing an emotional response from the audience, more than a dozen
Chicago Public School parents voiced complaints at Wednesday's school board meeting over how the district questioned their children about their decision to not to take the Illinois Standards Achievement Test when it was administered earlier this month.
-- Today, Parents Across America (PAA), a non-partisan, non-profit national network of
public school parent activists, released a proposal for true parent empowerment that authentically involves parents in collaborative school decision making and has a strong research base in improving student achievement.
Today, Parents Across America (PAA), a grassroots organization
representing public school parents from across the United States, released a position paper opposing HR 2218, the so - called «Empowering Parents through Quality Charter Schools Act.»
«I thought it was really important that we put a current
public school parent on to the Board of Regents,» O'Donnell said.
The Parent Advisory Board gives
Queens public school parents an opportunity to be heard on education issues and concerns and provides a forum to meet with senior city and state education officials.
The Buffalo
Public Schools Parent Assembly and Summit, which will take place on Friday and Saturday, will bring hundreds of parents together to discuss their priorities for the coming school year — priorities they will then pitch to top education officials and representatives from the state Legislature and governor's office.
The Common Core is a major sore spot for
many public school parents, who may feel as though standardization reduces their kids to numbers, rather than individuals.
Such bricolage arrangements are simple guesswork and no substitute for a rational student - based funding policy that treats the same student similarly regardless of the local
public school their parent chooses for them.