Triggering suspicion
families should not be lured by the false promises of Parent Revolution
By Caroline Grannan 11/17/2011
Pasadena Unified School District parents are being targeted by an outside organization that claims it wants to “empower” them to fix their schools.
Parent Revolution is a front group for corporate-backed charter schools, which have a very mixed academic record. Parent Revolution has never improved or even worked in any schools. It aims to exploit PUSD parents, not empower them.
Parent Revolution, started (under another name) by charter school operator Steve Barr, is like Astroturf — it has fake grassroots. As a public school parent, blogger and observer of education issues, I’ve followed Parent Revolution closely. The “education reform” the group
