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Useful Story About Trying To Force Parents To Participate In Schools
July 9th, 2010 by Larry Ferlazzo
With the on-going effort to force parents to be involved with schools or face punitive action, it was interesting today to read about an attempt two years ago in Washington, D.C. to require TANF (welfare) recipients to attend PTA and parent-teacher meetings.
Susie Cambria writes:
Welfare and education advocates alike educated the CM [Council Member] about the real reasons for poor parent engagement (including the failure of schools to make attempts to engage parents) and convinced him there was a better way to achieve the policy and practice goal.
One can only help that advocates can have similar luck in Detroit..
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