Parents union enters LAUSD reform debate

Three cheers for Green Dot charter school founder Steve Barr, who's created a group that REALLY represents parents.

Stepping into the battle to reform Los Angeles Unified, the founder of Green Dot charter schools announced Thursday he's launched a parents union that will demand small, safe and high-achieving public schools based on the model he created. The nonprofit Los Angeles Parents Union, founded by Steve Barr, also will actively lobby for proposed legislation that would give Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa greater authority over the school district and the teachers union more control at local schools. But the main goal of the Parents Union will be to advocate and promote Barr's vision for the LAUSD by implementing the six tenets he used when he created Green Dot campuses. And Villaraigosa, Barr said, has promised to go along with his plan. "If we're successful, we'll create the best public school system in the country and change the dynamics of the community," Barr said at a downtown news conference.

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Parents union enters LAUSD reform debate

BY NAUSH BOGHOSSIAN, Staff Writer

http://www.dailynews.com/search/ci_4021987

Stepping into the battle to reform Los Angeles Unified, the founder of Green Dot charter schools announced Thursday he's launched a parents union that will demand small, safe and high-achieving public schools based on the model he created.