Facilitator: Lourdes Ramirez-Ortiz, Ed.D., Community of Schools Administrator, East Los Angeles Community, Los Angeles Unified Parent Warriors: Gipsy Alvarado, Hilda Avila, Gwendolyn Landry, Mary Lee, Maria Leon, Mireya Pacheco Parents are their children’s first teacher and advocate. They know what their child’s needs are and are willing to do what is necessary. But, when you are low-income and already struggling, how can they get it done? How do predominantly low-income parents overcome systemic barriers and […]

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Agreement Reached! LAUSD Parents Glad Strike Is Over Call for Unity, Healing, and Action

This morning parents called out a press conference in front of LA City Hall. Click here to view the Facebook Live Video Los Angeles, CA – Parents and community-based organizations will hold a press conference on Wednesday, January 23, 2019 from 10 a.m. – 11 a.m. at Los Angeles City Hall (200 N. Spring Street, Los Angeles) to thank United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA), Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), and Los Angeles Mayor Eric […]

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UTLA and LAUSD are scheduled to resume negotiations in a last-ditch effort to achieve a contract everyone can live with, potentially avoiding about 30,000 teachers from walking off the job on January 10, 2019, significantly impacting over 480,000 students. Among UTLA’s list of demands is more money for teachers, smaller class sizes, and the hiring of more nurses, librarians, counselors, and social workers. Families In Schools, (FIS) spoke recently with a diverse group of parents, all of […]

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