CPPAC last year

...a rundown of speakers (a year ago they welcomed Boone in her first month)...events (the roundtable in January)...successes (working on the community meetings on tone and content)..and what comes next...

What do you think and what do you think we ought to do?
Site councils...legal mandates: "there are others where we have to get the parents who want to do it but don't know how"
accountability: "I don't think most schools are even aware of how their implicated in all of this"
"how do we engage the community in the role of parents on site councils"
Biancheria says that she spoke with parents who had no idea what they were supposed to be doing with site councils: asks that a definition of site councils be sent to the schools...would be a tremendous help
(I should perhaps mention that Monfredo and Biancheria are here as well as myself)

very informative trainings: cooperation with district and Worcester Educational Collaborative

fall push on site councils
spring parent institute

community advocacy on local and state leve: "it's moving, it's out there, and at this point, it's a fight that will always have to be fought"

"what does it mean to be in Worcester, to be in a city that has so much education...but what about our schools, when we barely live above foundation? A subcommittee to organize around funding issues...I don't know what the solutions are, but I feel like it's time...we can't keep whittling down and whittling down"
"it's not just for the survival of our children, it's for the survival of our city"