This week I reached out to a large group of parents with children in the Culver City Unified School District system to ask them what their three top concerns were in 2011 and beyond. The results were somewhat surprising and very diverse.
Overcrowding in the classrooms came up a lot, as did safety around the schools especially at the beginning and end of the school day. Funding for the schools, or lack thereof, was also major theme. What I was impressed by the most was the out-of-the box thinking that was put forth by a few parents.
Most of these parents have had enough of the purse strings being pulled by Sacramento. They wanted to find ways local parents can get more control over funding and its distribution. One suggestion was to create endowments and pay the
