Willing to be Disturbed: eliminating the achievement/opportunity to learn gap: parent involvement

Ruth Rodriguez Fay, president of Citizens for Public Schools: "connect to family involvement"
Transitional bilingual education had to provide training for families; families had to meet once a year with the superintendent; if they weren't heard, they brough it to the school committee (Rodriguez Fay worked as a family liasion in Worcester).
"it worked because of parent involvement...because of the negative...some of this has diminished"
Worcester's consent degree is a result of suit filed by parents..."though Worcester has leverage, I really feel there's so much more that Worcester could do in ESL"
"a lot of achievement gap has to do with the lack of resources...a lot of parents are worried...they don't have the language...when we went to the School Committee, they listened"
parents took School Committee members on a walk from Great Brook Valley (to..where?) on a cold and rainy day to see how hard it was for the kids to get to school; they got it paved
"Think of every child as your own"