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Flush with $2.2 million success, Cupertino parents share secrets
- 05-24-2010
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By Sharon Noguchi/San Jose Mercury News
If parents in the Cupertino Union School District had been graded on their recent campaign to fill the district's budget chasm, they would have soared so off the charts they would have destroyed the curve. Their energetic, grass-roots effort raised $2.2 million in eight weeks to help stave off more than 100 layoffs and preserve 20-to-1 student-teacher ratios in kindergarten through third grade. Barely pausing to celebrate, the parents behind the Their Future Is Now campaign are mapping out a new strategy and sharing their know-how with others hoping to replicate their success. Their forum Sunday drew both veterans of the Cupertino Union campaign and parents from places such as Union City, San Francisco and Scotts Valley eager to get some blueprints. (more...)
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