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Can a Parent be Fired for Going to Their Child's School?

Recently a parent in a Georgia School was forced from her job for taking time off to enroll her child in an after school program. Now the Georgia Legislature has proposed legislation to ensure that parents can attend school functions without fear of losing their jobs. Click the link to be taken to the article

Parent Partnership Team Celebration June 6, 2007

Dear Colleagues,

Thanks you so much for attending the event. More than 70 parents, teachers and administrators attended this event this year. By the way, this marks the fifth year of the celebration in Schenectady!

I would like to thanks the chairpersons for their leadership and their hard work to make it happen.

We think PPT had a part putting several schools on the "rapidly improving" list with the State Education Department.

Special thanks to Lori McKenna who had the vision in the parent partnership team concept and provided the funding to making it an ongoing part of Schenectady's continuing success with families and students.

The highlighted link will take you to some pictures of the Celebration.

Ready. Sit. Read

Looking for a resource for parents that will encourage parents to read with their children? Well, this site may just be the answer. Sponsored by Target Department stores, parent are offered tips on reading with your child, reading and writing, personal writing, and coupons and promotions. Thee is also a book club for kids
The site is very attractive, with sound and graphics
Share this site with parents!
http://sites.target.com/site/en/readysitread/home.jsp

Getting Hispanics involved in Schools

A quick post today to point you to an article about ways to get Hispanic parents invoved in schools. The article contains some hidden nuggets that you can use to increase parent involvement in your school!

See if you can find them and let me know if you have struck gold

Here's the article One Latina mother sets a PTA example


Visit Parent Involvement in Schools for more tips, tricks and techniques.

Parent Involvement: Schools Role is Expanding

• Breakfast Programs
• School Lunch
• After Schools tutoring
• Parenting Classes
• Parent Involvement coordinators
• Food baskets
• Enrichments programs
• Family counseling

Schools today provide a greatly expanded menu of services to families. Where will it end. the simple answer is it won't Parent and family programs have been expanding for at least 30 years. I expect that trend to continue.

As schools, we need to continue to support families in whatever way we can. Read the story of one districts efforts to make a difference. Much More Than Lessons

Visit Parent Involvement in Schools for more tips, tricks and techniques.

Parent Involvement: Helping Parents Help Their Children

I found this article in the Saint Louis Post Dispatch. The author makes the point (and I agree) that the most important kind of parent involvement takes place in the home. Talking with your children about school and its importance, can pay big dividends in children academic acheivement and any parent can do this. You don't need a big education or even be able to speak English well. Just let your kids know that school is their "job" and it is the most important thing they do every day.

Even though schools aren't in the home, they have an important role to play. Namely, helping parents help their children with homework, getting into college, providing workshops on state standards, local and state testing programs, etc. Take a look at the article here .

For more articles on Parent Involvement in Schools click here.


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