History of IDEA
Jeannie Oakes, Founder and Former Director
Youth Voice in School Finance
NEW REPORT: Los Angeles' road to A-G for all
Without Dollars and Sense Powerpoint
Past Educational Opportunity Reports
Parent activists come together
- 06-09-2010
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
Cupertino parents’ success in raising $2.5 million in eight weeks to save 100 teachers’ jobs and small classes is providing a model for parents in other communities distraught over budget cuts threatening their schools. The huge, time-consuming effort also taught a lesson to Cupertino parents, which they are happy to share: Once is plenty; don’t count on doing this every year to bail out your budgets. The outgrowth of the Cupertino experience is a new, as yet unnamed, Silicon Valley organization of parents with a two-prong goal: grass-roots organizing to save local schools and regional and state activism to reform education funding. (more...)
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