History of IDEA
Jeannie Oakes, Founder and Former Director
Youth Voice in School Finance
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Without Dollars and Sense Powerpoint
Past Educational Opportunity Reports
Parents form Educacy, set goal for 2012
- 07-23-2010
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
Setting their sights on as-yet undefined statewide initiative in 2012, a parent group in Silicon Valley is organizing to increase education funding. As Educacy, the name of their non-profit group indicates, the focus will be advocacy on behalf of parents. “Parents have been the missing link” in school reform and in discussions about the need for more money for schools, said Kay Louie of Redwood City, one of three lead figures behind the organization. Educacy is an outgrowth of a whirlwind campaign that raised $2.2 million in Cupertino in eight weeks last spring to fill in the gap – and spare 100 teaching jobs – caused by massive budget cuts in the elementary district. (more...)
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