Voices From The Community
Parents Supporting Teachers: A View of Advocacy from the Trenches
Guest columnist Rachel Wagner gives a tour of Parents Supporting Teachers, the largest parent-led education advocacy group in Los Angeles.
“Parenting is never easy. But parenting during a global pandemic can feel exasperating.”
- Rachel Wagner
This year will be a defining one for the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to rear its ugly head, the district will forge ahead with a new Superintendent. The primary election in June will set the table for a November General election that will determine the course for public education in Los Angeles. Behind the scenes, the Student-Centered Funding scheme is very much alive, endangering funding for schools like Kennedy High School.
With no parents of school-age children on the Board of Education, Parents Supporting Teachers has taken the lead in trying to guide decisions towards outcomes that will benefit public school families. In this first edition of the Voices From The Community series in 2022, Rachel Wagner writes about how she discovered the…
