L.A. Story: Can a Parent Revolution Change Urban Education's Power Structure?

 

 

For more on what's going on in LA and, in particular, Steve Barr and Green Dot, see this article from last July by Joe Williams (the new Executive Director of Democrats for Education Reform).

In 1990 Steve Barr "rocked the vote" in America by helping to engineer an upswing in voting among 18- to 24-year-olds with the help of musicians and other pop culture icons. Now the 47-year-old political operative and education entrepreneur is tapping into the frustrations of working-class parents in Los Angeles to rock the city's public schools to their core.

Barr, the founder and chief executive of a nonprofit network of Los Angeles charter schools, is rallying thousands of mostly Latino parents to the cause of school reform and using that political clout to force changes in the 727,000-student Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), the nation's second-largest school system.

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L.A. Story: Can a Parent Revolution Change Urban Education's Power Structure?

By Joe Williams and Tom Mirga
Publication Date: July 25, 2006

http://greendot.org/news/can_a_parent_revolution_change_urban_educations_power_structure.html

In 1990 Steve Barr "rocked the vote" in America by helping to engineer an upswing in voting among 18- to 24-year-olds with the help of musicians and other pop culture icons. Now the 47-year-old political operative and education entrepreneur is tapping into the frustrations of working-class parents in Los Angeles to rock the city's public schools to their core.