"Their children are still in elementary school, but a group of San Jose parents who are already thinking about high school have launched an intense lobbying campaign to attract a top-performing charter school to the East Side.
On Thursday, the founders of Summit Preparatory Charter High in Redwood City will hold an information session at Foothill Presbyterian Church. In preparation, San Jose parents, many with children at the K-5 Adelante Dual-Language Academy, hope to attract a big turnout and present a petition with 1,000 signatures asking that the Summit Institute choose East San Jose for one of two expansion campuses planned for fall 2011.
'We're parents who believe in small schools,' said organizer Bernie Kotlier, who emphasized that parent interest in Summit isn't a reflection on the quality or politics of the East Side Union High School District, the system their children would attend after the eighth grade."