Los Angeles (ap)--the Los Angeles apartment in the south to a little sitting room of stuffed, more than a dozen parents discuss, why the second largest school district in the country one of the worst, their child's school ranks.
The answer coming soon: the teacher tired; Gifted students questioned; Disabled students quarantined; Construction is dirty and office staff to the parents don't respect.
"We know what the problem is-we fix it," says perry Cassandra, primary school, the host country parents this meeting. "We are not against the administrator or the teachers' union, to our kids honest."
The school parent groups is no longer holding bake sales fundraising. For the reform of education they.
The mother and father, Woodcrest said: "father power are all in button," is a new established "parents union", popping up from San Diego to buffalo, New York, have the same goal-promoting schools improve learning.
The father of power movement behind, is a raised with the non-profit organization, Los Angeles the parents of the revolution in 2010, it pushed to the authority of the parents, forcing schools fail to passed a petition flow through a landmark law.
Known as "the father trigger," the California law is its was the first time in the country. Inspiration comes from Texas and Mississippi is considering a similar law and legislation to take in the 20 other countries. The two countries to veto bills. Parents trigger
The Austin, the father of the revolution executive director said: "parents have a more than anyone incentive structure of the different,". "They only those who really care about the children."
This is a compelling reason many parents.
San Diego mother Teresa was established to American parents education daughter of reading and math scores below after two years of level. Area is not doing enough to ensure that teachers effective and weeds out bad education workers, she said.
"I and other parents talk and found that they have the same experience," Andrew said. "I'm not opposed to me, but the PTA problem is a T in the PTA, this is parents led."
The union said oversimplistic blame teachers. Parents should try education workers of solution, can't fire them, they said.
California teachers association of southern California chapter, who is responsible for "it mean, but misguided," frank said Wells. "Parents should not be in the power vacuum in."
Wells says, parents have used the change of policy tools-school board elections.
Unions to trigger the mobilization laws parents. July this year, the American federation of teachers released its web site introduces how to succeed in winning the Connecticut father suggested that trigger dilution, parents can recommend changes, but there is no power issued slide shows the manuscripts.
In the subsequent media reports "plan to develop the answer: mode," alliance took down files, and deny it.
Austin, trade union against father trigger emphasize what is wrong-trade unions, such as charter schools, refused tenure changes and new performance evaluation measures to protect the employment of the reform efforts, but at the same time, many schools have failed to, especially in the party city.
"The system is calcification," he said. "" it's design, go against change. "
In some ironically, the parents of the revolutionary organizations parents use old school, labor organization tactics, employing and former U.S. farm workers and the service employees international union of the organizer, lead the effort. So far, has formed a 20 DuoGe trade unions.
Organization parents is more serious than workers a lot, he said, the organization director pat DeTemple. "Simply looking for parents, is a ridiculous work. Parents don't know each other," he said.
And employers different is that parents don't usually and school common dissatisfaction-they all have different experiences, according to their children. However, the parents of the mind, is a powerful tug.
"Their children are under threat, so deep incentive, organization, DeTemple said."
The organizer show parents how to carry out the effective internal meetings, distributing leaflets at the school gate, lobby door to door, write letters, and establish the investigation and petition. They also told parents aware of their rights and the rights of the students, and how to education system, and how to determine the working principle of a school state test scores, for example.
The country says perry, training, and opened the eyes of the parents. "We didn't notice, so we don't know what to ask," perry said. "We don't know we suitable for inches" parents alliance is now the Woodcrest students' parents investigation, in Los Angeles unified school district, and will be current of the main results of the action.
In south Los Angeles park a community center, speak Spanish parents from nearby Los Angeles college holding middle school. They've collected a textbook trade union organization of the so-called "self story" and learn how to briefly tell them why they become active stand for their children better education strategy training meeting.
DeTemple explain ", "it brings people together. "It can help them keep in touch, through the story of them share their values."
A mother said, she became, see the children smoking, bullying other children, and report the antipathy it teachers group chat, busy, took no action, said another, she is very angry, lightly treat poor students and parents.
District officials welcome effort to get parents more engaged in their children's education, especially in low-income areas,. Iker casillas maria said, the Los Angeles unified school, family and parents/community service administration and improve the students' academic performance, parents to participate in school outside of a key factor.
The parents of the union can become an effective tool. "They loudly, pushing them, and they have every right," she said. "We hope to promote children's parents advocates of learning for low-income children, we lack of them."
Parents activists thought is spreading.
In New York, buffalo reform and the parents formed after hearing of the movement of the California wrote for their parents area trigger bill.




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