Parent Power

Los Angeles Parents Score A Victory!

BREAKING NEWS: After months of asking for meetings of the LAUSD Special Education Committee to resume, one has been scheduled for March 25!

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“At the Los Angeles Unified School District, our goals are:

1. 100 percent graduation

2. Proficiency for all

3. 100 percent attendance

4. Parent and community engagement

5. School safety”

- LAUSD

When physical school sites shut down last March, all LAUSD committee meetings were also suspended, including those for the Special Education and Parent Engagement Committees. This eliminated an important form of feedback between the district and the parents that would have been beneficial at a time when communication was especially needed.

As the crisis caused by the pandemic wore on, public agencies, including the LAUSD Board, adapted and began to hold meetings online so that Safer At Home rules could be followed. However, with the exception of the Committee of the Whole, the district’s…