“LA aims to engage parents in schools with services”

“LA aims to engage parents in schools with services” is the headline of a new Associated Press article on the reorganization and expansion of a District parent involvement program.

Unfortunately, it appears to promote a misguided “If you build it, they will come” model of creating parent centers and coming up with classes that they think parents are going to be interested in, instead of making home visits, listening to what parents want, helping connect them to other parents and groups who share similar concerns, and working together in partnership to approach those challenges.

I would be happy to be shown that I’m wrong, and maybe the article doesn’t provide an accurate describe of the plan…..

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