New research supports PAA LSC model
Last week PAA celebrated alongside Florida parents with the defeat of so-called “parent trigger” legislation, which would have allowed parents in “low-performing” schools to vote to close it, fire all the staff, or turn it into a charter school. But that doesn’t mean that we are completely satisfied with our schools and see no need for improvement.
In fact, we are very concerned about our schools. We’re especially upset about who is running many of the school systems right now – corporate reformers, hedge funders,Broadies, and others who know little about what really works in education. We believe that these folks are not making decisions that are in the best interests of our children.
PAA has proposed a better way. Our position paper, “The Empowerment Parents Want,”describes Chicago’s Local School Council (LSC) model as a research-backed alternative to the top-down strategies of Race to the Top and other federal competitive programs.
We seem to be on the right track, because a new research report confirms that local