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EDUCATION: Parent involvement called essential | Luke Test Subsection - The Press-Enterprise

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EDUCATION: Parent involvement called essential

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For students to be successful in school, they need their parents to be involved, the Riverside County Superintendent of Schools said Friday in opening the second annual Parent and Family Engagement Summit.

The event, which attracted hundreds of parent volunteers to Palm Springs, is part of an effort to raise awareness of and support for parents to be involved in their children’s education, he said.

“There’s only so much the school can do without the parents,” Superintendent Kenneth Young said, adding he includes other caregivers in the word “parents.” “There’s not much a school can