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Community 15 Aug 2013 | 05:42 am
What is it about community that brings out the best in people? This week, three newly transformed Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) schools opened their doors to much fanfare and hope, brin...
Back to School means Back to Parents as Nation’s First ‘Parent Power Partnership’ School Opens Its Doors in Los Angeles 14 Aug 2013 | 08:18 am
LOS ANGELES – TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 2013 – Parents in Los Angeles are making history today with the opening of the nation’s first ‘Parent Power Partnership’ school created as a direct result of the use ...
A NEW DAY IN ADELANTO (Announcement & News Coverage Below) 3 Aug 2013 | 05:45 am
History Is Made As Nation’s First ‘Parent Power’ School Opens Its Doors in California This Week LOS ANGELES – TUESDAY, JULY 30, 2013 – Parents in the Southern California community of Desert Trails a....
Haddon Parents Abandon Trigger, Still Get Changes 1 Aug 2013 | 04:43 am
Haddon Elementary Parents In California public education, you sometimes don’t have to pull the trigger. Parents of students at Haddon Avenue Elementary in Pacoima have ended their ‘parent trigger’ c...
Parent Trigger Law Turns a Corner in California [Social Policy magazine] 22 Jul 2013 | 10:58 pm
(Pat DeTemple, Senior Strategist for Parent Revolution) At a neighborhood park in Los Angeles this past April, the mostly Latino parent union of nearby 24th St. Elementary was conducting a secret bal...
(Education Week) Parent Revolution: We Need to Work Together 10 Jul 2013 | 02:47 am
To the Editor: Three years ago, California enacted a groundbreaking new law called the "parent trigger" that gives parents the power to transform their failing neighborhood schools. From the start, o...
Statement on LAUSD School Board Zimmer's June 18 Resolution (Link Included) 14 Jun 2013 | 10:58 pm
(Gabe Rose, Deputy Director for Parent Revolution) Although this resolution was written without any input from Parent Revolution or the parents who are actually using this law, we are supportive of m...
Daily News: High-profile spat shows how much at stake in education (Editorial) 14 Jun 2013 | 10:08 pm
By Los Angeles News Group 06/12/2013 The details of the online spat between New York University education professor Diane Ravitch and Parent Revolution executive director Ben Austin aren't very inter...
Consensus: We Need a Kids First Dialogue 11 Jun 2013 | 05:22 am
Ensuring our nation's public education system addresses schools failing their local children, families, and communities is a difficult but critical task. When a majority of kids leave a school and can...
A Kids First Dialogue: Open Letter to Dr. Diane Ravitch from Ben Austin 8 Jun 2013 | 02:31 am
Dear Professor Diane Ravitch: Parents, educators, and education advocates have a lot in common when it comes to a kids-first first agenda. But we can never seize that common ground if those with whom...
