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 About Us Parent U-Turn Publications and Media Coverage “Bottom-up accountability”: Parents can use the No Child Left Behind Act to get more of a voice in their kids’ schools. Deborah Kong in Action Alliance for Children. November-December 2005. http://www.4children.org/news/1105ncle.htm Activist parent writes book on dealing with schools. By Marcy Santana, Staff Writer for the Los Angeles Wave Newspaper.September 7, 2005. The Activist Parent. Adolfo Guzman Lopez profiles parents in the San Fernando Valley and in South Gate who are actively involved in their childrens' schools. KPCC talk Radio 89.3 (PUT). October 21, 2005. Every Student Deserves a Quality Teacher: Lynwood Parents Research Access to Quality Teachers. Mary Johnson, Parent Director of Parent U-Turn, conducted interviews with Assemblymember Marco Firebaugh, Congresswoman Juanita Millender-McDonald and Director of UCLA’s Teacher Education Program, Eloise Lopez Metcalfe to determine what can be done to ensure quality teachers in Lynwood. An Educational Bill of Rights. Vol. 2., Issue 3. http://tcla.gseis.ucla.edu/rights/features/3/johnson/. Building Parents as Researchers. Johnson, M., Munoz, V., & E. Street. (2003). ERIC ED478210. This paper describes aprogram in which parents learned about becoming educational researchers and developed research skills they could use for school improvement. Parent-U-Turn is a parent organization in Lynwood, California and surrounding communities that has worked with researchers from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) to procure and gather information about quality schooling. Acting on Our Rights. Johnson, M. & V. Munoz. An Educational Bill of Rights. Vol. 2., Issue 7. http://tcla.gseis.ucla.edu/rights/features/7/parents/johnson_munoz.html Featured In: Creating a Public Accountability for California Schools. Rogers, J. (2004). Teachers College Record: Teachers College,Columbia University, (p. 2171-2192). First Things First: Why we must stop punishing student sand fix California’s Schools. May 17, 2003. Californians for Justice. A report on School Inequality and the impact of the California High School Exit Exam. http://www.caljustice.org/pdf/first_things_first.pdf
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