CA Parent Power@CAParentPower

Parent-led organization centering the voices of students and families in public education and helping reimagine education reform in California

 California
Based in United States
caparentpower.org/
Joined January 2021
Such as: why does @WeAreCTA oppose screening when it will add better diagnostic resources to school systems? Also, why is @GavinNewsom spending $30M on a new screening tool, which is slow to reach schools, when plenty of screening tools already exist today?
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Replying to @mgpotente @TonyThurmond @LDH_ed @careads @DDCalifornia @KJWinEducation @LakishaYoungCEO @SchwinnTeach

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Replying to @EdSource @GavinNewsom
Our ED @meganbaci shared her views on how this budget falls far short when it comes to early literacy
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Massachusetts @MASchoolsK12 is again stepping up to incentivize districts to move away from weak materials in favor of high-quality options. When does California follow these leaders, @GavinNewsom @TonyThurmond @LDH_ed @CADeptEd? doe.mass.edu/grants/2023/730…
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Important guidance for how to handle suicidal ideation in teens: don't ignore it but don't panic
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The impact of school closures on mental health
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We have double the rate of England and Wales, largely because it's so easy to access guns
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Can you imagine feeling unsafe in your home and not being able to go to school for 12-18 months??
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Our #GivingTuesday message to CA parents @meganbaci Please consider supporting our efforts! caparentpower.org/donate
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“Well, there’s understand and there’s understand and there’s understand. You know, I find that you learn and you relearn and you relearn and you relearn.” This is a K-12 literacy leader talking. 😳 Are you listening to @ehanford @CLPeak’s podcast? features.apmreports.org/sold…
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Replying to @ms_tarca @MASchoolsK12 @karenvaites
Cc: @TonyThurmond @LDH_ed @careads @mgpotente @DDCalifornia @SFParents @meganbaci

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Inspiring moment today as @KJWinEducation honors Gary Payton II with the @careads California Reading Hero Award for his dyslexia advocacy. 👏👏👏
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Reminder: most CA districts are still using balanced literacy instead of structured literacy
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Important Paired Texts: @GavinNewsom advisor @LDH_ed has been overheard promoting Reading Recovery, the costly reading intervention program designed by Marie Clay. Meanwhile, @ehanford’s Sold a Story raises fresh questions about Clay & Reading Recovery. the74million.org/article/ami…
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"Democrats shouldn’t just want to be the party of government. They should want to be the party of govt that actually works. With little evidence that school closures saved lives & ample evidence that they hurt kids, this is a policy that failed...we have to see reality clearly."
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Specifically, 60% of CA students were below-grade level in math, and half in English Language Arts. Tell us again how our schools have the tools to “make up a year or two in a semester,” @LDH_ed?
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We are concerned to see @LDH_ed implying easy, swift catch-up options for our children in her comments to @palomaesquivel @howardblume. This sounds like magical thinking. If it was so easy, why were most CA students below grade level before COVID? latimes.com/california/story…
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.@TonyThurmond has been critiqued for substituting library cards and pledges for a real literacy plan: the74million.org/article/ami… Now, he is touting counselors and community schools. Parents are not encouraged by this weak focus on academic recovery.
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@TonyThurmond’s narrative about the necessity of school closures is unsubstantiated in the article, and by looking at real-world evidence. What’s more, it has been 2.5 years since schools closed. Thurmond had >1 “normal” school year to take action. Now is PAST the time to act.
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The natl COVID School Reaponse Dashboard, which included data for 12M US children, incl CA students, showed that learning model did not influence rates of COVID: covidschooldashboard.com COVID deaths are tragic, but they were not slowed or prevented by keeping schools closed.
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We are concerned to see @TonyThurmond perpetuating the idea that school closures were necessary, or that they affected COVID outcomes, in his comments to @palomaesquivel @howardblume. There is no evidence to support this statement. In fact… 🧵 latimes.com/california/story…
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Our statement regarding the release of California's Smarter Balanced scores @meganbaci
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This small school district in Santa Barbara was high-performing before the pandemic, but it also decided to buck the CA trend and put students first by opening up early in Fall 2020. Why didn't more CA school districts engage in creative planning like this??
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Why math scores declined more than reading - you just can't teach math remotely.
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Key results
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@LakishaYoungCEO and @TheOaklandREACH parent Christina Barnes on why this resolution is so important:
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CA Parents: Reminder about the virtual town hall with Superintendent Tony Thurmond this Wednesday! You can register here: surveys3.cde.ca.gov/s.asp?k=…
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CA Parent Power Statement on CDE delay in release of SBAC data @meganbaci @TonyThurmond @CADeptEd @GavinNewsom @LDH_ed
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CA Parents: please join our ED @MeganBaci at this parent town hall with @TonyThurmond next Wednesday and make your voice heard!
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This graphic speaks volumes Source: @ProfEmilyOster's ParentData newsletter parentdata.org/p/pandemic-te…
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This data should be incredibly worrisome for statewide leaders and school districts worried about enrollment declining! A shocking 47% of parents would pull kids from public school if they were able!
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A majority of CA voters rate quality of education as their top 3 concern followed by violence in schools and student mental health. We need leaders prioritizing the well-being of our kids after 2 years of disruption.
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Only 3% rate CA public schools as excellent and another 19% good. Leaders wanting to bring kids back to public schools to address our enrollment crisis have a lot of work to do! Cc: @TonyThurmond
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This is so good @VPrasadMDMPH "In medicine you have to prove your intervention helps" vinayprasadmdmph.substack.co…
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sounds familiar...
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We too want some real, meaty answers to these questions
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It's pretty shocking to learn that the PTA is the "largest child advocacy organization in the nation," given that many local PTAs have simply acted as extensions of teachers unions during the pandemic
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"California kids experienced the 2nd largest increase in depression and anxiety among all states," a jump of 70%. CA was also dead last in percentage of schools reopened in Spring 2021.
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So much of the anger from parents stems from the hypocrisy by adults and double standards that punish kids and kids only.
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Get parents back into schools and reinstate the FUN part of school for kids!
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No more mask mandates except if something changes in a dire way
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End quarantining of healthy kids
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This is absolutely CHILLING. 228,000 kids in South Asia dead, not from Covid, but from disruptions of crucial social services. LOCKDOWNS KILL bbc.com/news/world-asia-5642…
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#3 Political tribalism (aka the Trump effect)
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#2 Teachers unions (with zero public health expertise)
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3 reasons for extended closures in many places in CA (like the Bay Area) #1 Decentralization
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"Elitist lockdown measures" were a "spectacular failure"
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YES YES YES YES @ShamikDasgupta1
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on the issue of whether school closures were justified to protect teachers
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The longterm cost of school closures
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Crucial point: extended school closures were not progressive
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We decided to dig into CA's public school enrollment crisis by speaking with five parents about their decisions. Check out our new piece written by @rmbodenheimer caparentpower.org/blog
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This is the award Gavin Newsom is accepting in DC today. Even before the pandemic we were at the bottom of the literacy rankings. Then CA refused to reopen schools for 18 months, so that clearly hasn't improved. What a joke. ecs.org/wp-content/uploads/2…
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The finding by @pewresearch that both Republicans and Democrats believe K-12 students' needs weren't met during the pandemic aligns with our own recent Parent Poll (shown in graphic) pewresearch.org/science/2022…
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Given this bipartisan finding, it's high time that major stakeholders come out and say explicitly that prolonged distance learning was a disaster for kids that will take years to remedy
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This new Pew Research survey tells an incredibly important story about how we as a nation have neglected kids' needs and wellbeing during the pandemic pewresearch.org/science/2022…
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Such important insight by @nataliapetrzela
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Both parties are failing children miserably
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A few more results
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Here are a few of our findings
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Even @Bob_Wachter has to admit that the mandate was essentially useless because while high-quality masks can prevent transmission, too few people subjected to mandates actually wear them.
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