Posts Tagged ‘Community Engagement’
The Link Between Parents, Communities and Green Dot
At Green Dot, a special staff person helps power the vital partnership between schools, families, and communities — we call them Parent Coordinators, and they help bridge the gap between students’ home and school lives.
Read More >>Kevin de Leon Meets with Charter Parents to Talk Immigration Policy
This spring, parents and students from Green Dot Public Schools’United Parents and Students, KIPP Public Charter Schools, and Magnolia Public Schools, hosted the LA Stands for All Immigrant Families assembly, a collective effort to protect the rights of the families our schools serve — and by extension, families like them across the city.
Read More >>In Memoriam: Labor and Education Hero Mike Garcia
This week we honor the life of labor hero Mike Garcia, a powerful leader of labor movements in the west, and a former member of the Green Dot Public Schools Board of Directors.
Read More >>How Organized Parents and Students Empower Communities
In education, poverty is still the principal indicator of quality — where working class families can ask for change, but, without power, they cannot demand it. United Parents and Students, an affiliate of Green Dot Public Schools National, is working to change that.
Community Helps Shape Future Public Middle School in Southeast Seattle
Before Green Dot’s Southeast Seattle Middle School opens the doors, we’ll have spent nearly two years listening and gathering feedback from the residents and organizations that make this area one of the most diverse and thriving communities in the state.
Read More >>Public Education and Charter Schools at this Moment in History
CEO, Marco Petruzzi, shares with TOWN HALL LA how Green Dot Public Schools is revolutionizing the public school system. Petruzzi addresses how Green Dot achieves better student outcomes with lower per pupil funding, a unionized workforce, and operates only in high need communities.
Read More >>Renewal & Reflection: Which Green Dot Values will Guide us in 2017?
As we enter a new year, there is much to consider from the past year that can help support our mission to transform public education so that all students graduate prepared for college, leadership, and life. There are many elements of our work that are truly valuable to student growth and community revitalization–both core parts of Green Dot’s model.
Read More >>It’s No Secret, Engaged Parents Help Students Succeed
We strive to engage parents in their child’s education because we know that parent engagement supports student success. Green Dot is committed to creating a bridge between students’ home life and our schools.
Read More >>United Parents and Students Assemble for Change
The third annual United Parents and Students Assembly elevated a future where students had safe and clean paths to school, where parents had jobs that paid a living wage, and higher education was more accessible to students.
Read More >>Election Day, the Green Dot Way
All year, Green Dot Public Schools’ Community Engagement team has been working with our students and their families as part of our Green Dot Votes Initiative. Through voter education and outreach, our Green Dot voters, both experienced and new, are more informed about the ballot measures that matter most to them.
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