Josh Karan on the DOE's new Parent University
Chancellor Wolcott has announced that in the next half year he will be establishing an NYC public school parent training program which he calls Parent University.
Ostensibly, this is his attempt to fulfill the promise made by the DOE two years ago in return for the NYS legislature renewing Mayoral Control of the NYC school system.
Little information about the content of the training has been disclosed, but there has been some description about helping parents learn how they can help their children with homework, navigating the escalating number of available middle and high school choices, and knowing HS graduation requirements. I believe all of these are important matters for parents to know about.
However, all of these address contending with a system that increasingly diminishes the possibility of most families in this city to obtain a meaningful education for their children.
Matters pertaining to funding, curricula, teacher and administrator preparation, school lunch, having not been mentioned, seemingly are not areas that parents attending Parent University will be exposed to. Therefore, the diploma