CA Parent Power

04/16/2023

Support Parents in Oakland! Say NO to a Strike! -

04/15/2023

The Oakland Education Association (OEA) has called a strike vote for Monday, April 17th. As Oakland district families, we are enraged by this action. Our kids’ education is too important to be used as a pawn by adults who are using bad-faith tactics in (what are supposed to be) good-faith negotiations. We fully support teachers being paid well, and the current OUSD offer amounts to a significant pay increase for teachers, in some cases a 20% increase!

Sign on to our petition to join in a public sentiment that does NOT support teacher strikes that disrupt any of our students' learning, especially our students who are struggling the most in our schools right now. Signing this petition is also important to urge OUSD to take the legal action necessary to stop this. This website created by OEA teachers includes a plan to have an open-ended strike this Fall.

Right now, OEA members have engaged hundreds of Hills families for support. They have had presentations included in their PTA newsletters (Montclair) and personal text messages from their teachers asking for home visits next week. Meanwhile, thousands of flatlands families will be blindsided with a text message from the district communicating to them that they will not be able to bring their kids to school the next day.

Sign today!!

02/23/2023

Can CA do the Right Things When it Comes to Early Literacy? -

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02/01/2023

Did you miss our ED Megan Bacigalupi on the EdSource round table yesterday? Check out their site to watch the 🔥 discussion about why CA is doing such a poor job when it comes to early literacy and how parents can advocate for their own child and change in their districts.

01/20/2023

Two events for CA parents focused on early literacy -

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01/19/2023

EdSource will be hosting a roundtable featuring our ED, Megan Bacigalupi, and others: What parents and teachers can do to get the state's youngest students reading by third grade

Jan. 31, 4pm.

Register here:

Parents and teachers are on the frontlines of California's literacy crisis amid a national debate on how best to teach reading. Both groups often lack the tools to get involved and be heard. This roundtable will focus on what parents and teachers need to know about the state's reading dilemma. What....

01/18/2023

Our ED Megan Bacigalupi weighed in on Newsom's budget and how it falls short when it comes to early literacy

https://edsource.org/2023/the-right-choices-leaders-policymakers-and-experts-react-to-gov-newsoms-2022-23-education-budget/684352

01/18/2023

See CA Parent Power ED Megan Bacigalupi’s reaction to the Gov budget:

What should be the priorities for supporting K-12 education during this economic downturn, and how well does the proposed budget meet them?

Our state leaders must ensure students and teachers have the supports in place to enable all students to read on grade level, and this budget falls far short. This proposed budget has hundreds of millions going to early literacy efforts, but it’s missing key pieces enabling that money to be effective: no comprehensive state literacy plan, no requirement that curriculum and instruction align with the science of reading, and no mandated dyslexia screening in K-2 as 40 other states require. If enacted, California would waste hundreds of millions on failed balanced literacy programs, doing little to help our literacy crisis.

Megan Bacigalupi is the co-founder and executive director of CA Parent Power, a statewide parent advocacy organization focused on literacy.

01/17/2023

Great piece on the fight over math curriculum in CA and the dangers of doing nothing

"It’s also important to note that California’s adoption list is only advisory. The state has chosen not to require or even encourage districts to adopt high-quality materials. As a result of this hands-off approach, even a quick perusal of school report cards shows that California schools and districts have adopted a dizzying array of materials, many of them poorly rated by curriculum experts (if they’ve adopted any materials at all)."

While policymakers and advocates are arguing over how best to teach math, an increasing number of California's students are failing to learn math.

01/13/2023

One attending physician in Atlanta "estimates that at his hospital, 90 percent of patients diagnosed with covid are actually in the hospital for some other illness."
Important piece by Dr. Leana Wen

Deaths with incidental covid need to be distinguished from deaths due to covid.

12/23/2022

It’s been quite a year! Our last newsletter of 2022 highlighted the education news and stories we thought were most important for CA parents and it should be no surprise many focused on our literacy crisis in our state.

We hope you enjoy some time with family and friends over the holidays and we can’t wait to get back to work supporting students and families in 2023!

12/21/2022

The best education stories of the year -

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