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Parents In Control
815 S. Clairborne, Ste. 225
Olathe, KS 66062
Contact: Kay O'Connor or Mike Pirner
Phone: 877-Iam4PIC
Email: pic@parentsincontrol.org
Website: http://www.parentsincontrol.org
Parents In Control is a not-for-profit, tax deductible organization aimed at educating the grassroots. Through the formation of PIC Chapters, PIC hopes to get parents and all citizens more informed by teaching them about the issues that are important to them, how to lobby, and how to be effective when involved as an activist.
APACE (Arizona Parents Association for Children’s Education)
1301 E. Myrna Lane
Tempe, AZ 85284
Contact: Onnie Shekerjian
Phone: (480) 831-2733
Fax: (480) 491-7956
APACE provides Arizona parents with hands-on training and education reform seminars and serves as a voice for the parental community. APACE activities focus on education and information assistance, advocacy and representation, including: assisting parents in understanding their legal rights regarding access to information and services which must be provided by schools, the mechanics of schools decision making at the local and state level, and how to access the public education system; providing training to parent volunteers as education advocates to assist and advise other parents on individual education issues; offering referrals to organizations with special expertise in education issues; providing an information hot line; surveying members to gauge parental perspective on timely education issues and distribute results to policy makers and members of the media; participating in public forums at both the local (local governing and school board meetings) and state (legislative committees) levels as a parent representative.
APACE seeks to help Arizona parents become more effective in improving the quality of education their children receive by: educating parents on their rights and responsibilities in the K-12 school system; training parents to effectively access and influence their local schools; advocating for parents in individual matters regarding their children’s education; informing parents of timely and important education issues; and giving parents an organized voice in education.
Parents in Participation
P.O. Box 334
Alpena, AR 72611
Fax: 501.437.5455
Elizabeth "Libby" Enyeart founded -- and is the heart of -- PIP, which coordinates a variety of services in this part of northwest Arkansas, including: Super Seniors, a volunteer senior citizen group that helps with reading in the local public school; the Kids 4 Kids Klub, a support group for children with community-based summer activities; Parents-Night-Out, which provides free baby-sitting for PIP volunteers; and an after-school tutoring program for students with or without learning issues. But PIP's work does not end there; Libby and her compatriots go into the local school to advocate for their charges, supporting the school, students, and parents.
Said Elizabeth Watson, a mother of two boys enrolled in the tutoring program, "It has given [my son] the confidence he needed."
California Parents for Educational Choice
2291 Stockton St., #407
San Francisco, CA 94133
Contact: Dr. Alan Bonsteel
Phone: 415-982-6403
Fax: 1-415-982-6413
Email: Bonsteel@pol.net
Citizens United for Education
4237 Second St.
Riverside, CA 92501
Phone: 909-788-9394
Contact: Gayle Cloud
Located in Riverside, Citizens United for Education promotes public awareness about current issues in education; provides well-researched analysis of public education issues; works to influence policy at all levels of government; preserves and protects parents' rights to direct their children's public education; and provides support to community members as education-related issues arise.
CUE's newsletter, published monthly by Gayle Cloud, is chock-full of information, not only about local issues -- a UC Riverside professor discussed with CUE members the remediation that high school students often need in the first year of college -- but also national issues that affect all -- statistics from a Michigan study that show the success of phonics-based language arts programs.
EdVoice
Ted Lempert, CEO
1564 Laurel Street
San Carlos, CA 94070
Phone: (650) 595-5023
Fax: (650) 637-2062
Email: tlempert@yahoo.com
Website: www.edvoice.net
EdVoice is a C-4 grassroots organization advocating for education reform and support for public education across California. This statewide grassroots network is focused on passing legislation that will reshape California's public education policy and enable students to excel in the 21st Century. EdVoice works to shift the policy focus from process to outcomes, in the belief that currently there are too many rules from the state, and too often poor outcomes in the schools. EdVoice is dedicated to creating the political muscle needed to gather the resources and enact the serious reform that will ensure all California schools achieve excellence.
Parents for Valley View
3012 Passmore Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90068
Contact: Frances J. Parrish
Phone: 323-851-6747
Fax: 1-323- 202-3423
Franny Parrish and fellow parents in this part of LA are working hard to regain Valley View Elementary School; a large portion of the young people who attend this school, part of the LA Unified School District, are bused from as much as thirty miles away, and many neighborhood children have not had the chance to attend their own local school. Franny wants to adjust these priorities -- and help everyone while she's at it.
"We are just trying to make a public school better," Franny said, "whether that's for the community it was built to serve, or the kids who come to it by bus." She and her peers are persevering to get more parents involved in the school -- whether they are from Valley View or elsewhere -- and are asking some tough questions of the school's current principal and other administrators.
PIE National Newsletter
690-A Los Angeles Avenue, #232
Simi Valley, CA 93065
Contact: Ms. Coleen Ary
Phone: 1-805-581-6169
Fax: 1-805-581-6169
Email: LYTK73A@prodigy.com
School Wise Press
236 Moncada
San Francisco, CA 94127
Phone: 415-337-7971
Fax: 415-337-1146
Website: www.schoolwisepress.com
E-mail: edit@schoolwisepress.com
School Wise Press helps parents "get smart about California schools." Their website offers school-by-school rankings within each county of California, as well as a virtual library of practical information from standardized testing to bilingual education, from parent's rights to choosing schools.
Colorado Children's Campaign
1600 Sherman B-300
Denver, CO 80203
Phone: 303-839-1580
Fax: 303-839-1354
Contact: Ms. Barbara O’Brien
CARE: Connecticut Answer for Responsible Education
442 Steele Rd.
New Hartford, CT 06057
Phone: 860-693-6793
Contact: Linda LaRue
CARE promotes full school choice and aggressive public school reform centered around academic excellence and rigorous standards. We strongly support publicly funded education vouchers for private or parochial education. We also endorse pre-college, as well as college, tax credits for school tuition and related expenses, charter schools which offer true alternatives to mainstream public school education and public schools which promote world class education which challenge each student to achieve his or her personal academic best.
Citizens for Education Reform
P.O. Box 231242
Hartford, CT 06123
Committee
to Save Our Schools
P.O. Box 5222
Westport, CT 06881
Phone: 203-454-7283
Fax: 203.226.1636
Website: http://pages.prodigy.com/CT/ctsos/ctsos.html
CT:SOS was formed in January of 1994 to combat then-Governor Weicker's efforts to reform Connecticut's public schools using outcome-based education. Since the success of that initial work -- the OBE measure didn't even have the support to attempt a floor vote -- CT:SOS has broaden its scope. It helps devise and recommend alternatives to improve that state's schools; combats "progressive" methodologies and centralized control over education; provides information to potential candidates/members of local school boards; works with other Connecticut organizations on programs of common interest; and, last but not least, encourages its local chapters to be sources of intelligence about successful and unsuccessful school practices and helps them work toward positive education reform in their schools.
Advocating what it calls "academics-based education," CT:SOS also has an extensive library of materials that, for a small donation, it gladly mails out.
Hartford Parent NetworkThe Hartford Parent Network is an three-year-old, city-wide coalition of diverse parents and parent groups that serves as a forum for city-wide dialogue in the areas related to the positive growth and development of Hartford’s children. The HPN supports the needs of parents and parent groups in gaining information and training necessary to be informed and equal partners in the governance of Hartford schools and in other areas addressing the education, health and well-being of Hartford's children.
We currently have three action committees: Parent Involvement, which is working to ensure that parents are involved in all aspects of schools, especially decision-making; School Reform, which is advocating for more student-centered classrooms and teaching strategies, and more school-based decision-making; and School Choice, which is advocating for all Hartford schools to be schools of choice and changing the funding system to a child-based funding system.
Parent Education Group (PEG)
122 Inwood Road
Fairfield, CT 06432
Contact: Ms. Roberta Stone
Phone: 203-579-2442
Fax: 203-333-7646
Email: atrebor24@aol.com
Coalition for Back to Basics
5 Majestic Court--Brandywine
Wilmington, DE 19810
Contact: Harold Naylor
Phone: 302-695-2132
Fax: 302-529-2071
Education throughout America is facing a crisis. Children face problems such as overcrowded classrooms and poor learning environment, as well as challenges related to the need for more individualized education, conveniently located schools, and attention to personal values. Focus on the Kids, Inc. wants all children to receive a solid education with all the resources and opportunities available to them.
Focus on the Kids, Inc., is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing information on and support for school choice and charter schools in Delaware. Its mission is to help parents learn about the choices available to them, and to assist families in choosing the educational option that will best meet the needs of their children.
Ad Hoc Parent's CoalitionD.C. Parents for School Choice
1530 16th Street, NW, Suite 003
Washington, DC 20009
Contact: Virginia Walden-Ford
Phone: 202-518-4140
Email: gfwFOCUS@aol.com
Friends of Choice in Urban Schools (FOCUS)
1530 16th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: (202) 387-0405
Fax: (202) 667-3798
Robert I. Cane, Executive Director
Website: www.focus-dccharter.org
FOCUS is a community group of DC citizens and friends, dedicated to improving public education through systemic reform. FOCUS’s activities and mission include: developing interest in and support for District public charter schools by educating policy makers and the general public; facilitating communication and collaboration among charter schools by providing leadership to the D.C. Public Charter School Coalition; providing direct assistance to public charter schools in such areas as facilities acquisition and financing, business and general management, and establishing partnerships with independent schools; and recruiting students for the public charter schools through comprehensive community outreach activities.
Office for Catholic School Parent Associations
3211 4th Street, N.E.
Washington, DC 20017-1194
Phone: 202-541-3132
Fax: 202-541-3390
Floridians for School Choice
1000 Brickell Avenue, Suite 900
Miami, FL 33131
Phone: 305.702.5576
Fax: 305.379.7114
E-mail: info@floridians.org
Web: www.floridians.org
Independent Voices for Better Education, Inc.
l054 N. Northlake Dr.
Hollywood, FL 330l9
Contact: Ms. Charlotte Greenbarg
Phone: 954-927-9902
Fax: 954-927-7024
Website: http://www.ivbe.org/
Formed in 1990, IVBE is a grassroots group organized and operated by volunteers, with members across the country as well as in Florida. IVBE seeks to return accountability for student outcomes to the public system, utilizing those methods proven to work: funding classrooms first, including parents and community members at all levels of decision-making, giving families the right to direct the education of their children, rewarding excellence, not mediocrity, all with strict oversight of tax dollars.
Georgia Parents for Better Education
1355 Peachtree Street, NE
Suite 1150
Atlanta, GA 30309
Phone: 404-876-3335
Fax: 404.876.3338
United Parents for Excellence in Education
105 Championship Drive
Athens, GA 30607
Contact: Ms. Linda Hamrick
Phone: 770-353-3129
Fax: 770-350-3666
Idaho Citizens for Quality Education
1055 5th Street
Idaho Falls, ID 83401
Contact: Ms. Dani Hansen
Phone: 208-522-9767
Coalition of Parents and Patrons of Education
2825 Capitol St.
Fort Wayne, IN 46806
Contact: The Reverend Mike Nickleson
Kentucky League for Educational Alternatives (KLEA)
16 Wild Lake
Covington, KY 41015-9548
Contact: Mr. David Zerhusen
Phone: 502-875-8010
Citizens for Better Schools
P.O. Box 11683
Alexandria, LA 71314-1683
Contact: Ms. Kathy Shumate
Phone: 318-487-8746
Maine School Choice Coalition
12 Belmont Street
Brunswick, ME 04011
Contact: Frank Heller
Phone: 207-729-1590
Fax: 207-729-1590
Email: global@gwi.net
Website: Maine
School Choice Coalition
The Maine School Choice Coalition provides political and public education on the goal of having a child- and parent-centered system of publicly financed education, and the objective of establishing a child's right to a good education. The Coaltion seeks: to make the public aware of electronic school choice, a now massive industry which is reshaping higher education and in turn PK-12; to restore the traditional Maine system of school choice, which relied on using private schools chartered by the Legislature to educate public students whose tuition was reimbursed by local school committees.
The Coalition's activities include: drafting Maine's only comprehensive school choice legislation; testifying on school choice legislation sent before the 1996-1998 sessions of the Maine Legislature; providing technical assistance to citizens groups on everything from starting a charter school to running a referendum on school vouchers; providing public information sessions on charter schools.
C.A.R.E.-Citizens Acting for Responsible Education
3008 Vandever Street
Brookville, MD 20833
Contact: Mrs. Claren Holmes
Phone: 301-774-1913
Maryland Coalition for Concerned Parents
3807 Taylor St.
Chevy Chase, MD 20815
Contact: Mr. Malcolm Lawrence
Phone: 301-652-4962
Action for Children's Education
PO Box 767
Acton , MA 01720
Contact: Ms. Karen Byars
Phone: 978-635-1800
Fax: 978-456-2773
Email: klbyars@earthlink.net
Parents Alliance for Catholic Education
124 Summer Street
Fitchburg, MA 01420
Contact: Mr. Stephen Perla
Phone: 978-665-9890
Parent Advisory Council (PAC)
1314 Hemmeter Rd.
Saginaw, MI 48603
Contact: Ms. Vicki Westhoff
Phone: 517-793-1735
Parents for Accountability in Education
1070 Wildwood Rd.
Quincy, MI 49082
Contact: Ms. Thelma Bowerman
Phone: 517-639-7370
Partnership for Learning
321 N. Pine
Lansing, MI 48933
Phone: 517-374-4083
Fax: 517-374-4092
Toll Free Help Line: 1-800-832-2464
Contact: Bryan Taylor, President
Website: www.PartnershipForLearning.org
Email: Bryan@PartnershipForLearning.org
The Partnership for Learning seeks to equip families and communities to maximize learning starting at birth. The Partnership works with media and corporate, government, foundation, school and community groups to conduct research, facilitate dialogue and equip people to make better informed education decisions. Learning tools for families include an interactive web-site, a magazine, a toll-free help-line at 1-800-832-2464 and a public information campaign.
Citizens' League
708 South Third Street, Suite 500
Minneapolis, MN 55415
Contact: Mr. Phil Jenni
Phone: 612-338-0791
Fax: 612.337.5919
Partnership for Choice in Education
900 Minnesota Building
46 East Fourth Street
St. Paul, MN 55101
Contac: Morgan Brown
Phone: 651-293-9196
Fax: 1-651-293-9285
Email: pcemail@pcemn.org
Website: http://www.pcemn.org/
PCE is a non-profit organization which provides public information and community education on the benefits of educational choice.
Nebraska Charter School Coalition
230 S. 68th Ave.
Omaha, NE 68132
Contact: Rhonda Stuberg, Director
Phone: 402-558-4644
Fax: 402-933-3907
Email: stuberg@ne.uswest.net
The Nebraska Charter School Coalition was organized to inform citizens of Nebraska about charter schools and to advocate for the passage of strong charter school legislation.
Nebraska Federation of Catholic School Parents
1201 Lincoln Mall
Suite 102
Lincoln, NE 68508-2839
Phone: 402-475-5100
Fax: 402.475.2693
All Parents United
374 Claremont St.
Boulder City, NV 89005
Contact: Ms. Wanda Rosenbaum
ALERT (Alliance for Children’s Educational Excellence)
1780 Becky Court
Reno, NV 89503
Contact: Ms. Linda Anderson
Phone: 702-747-7659
The Alliance for Children’s Educational Excellence is a non-profit organization of individuals who seek to promote awareness and advocate for legislation and programs that will enhance and improve the quality of education for children. The goals of the Alliance include aiding in the implementation of the best educational programs and promotion of the rights of parents to control and direct their children’s academic development. The Alliance seeks to provide a statewide communication network utilizing newsletters, the internet, educational materials, conferences, and other formats to actively promote educational issues and reform initiatives. The Alliance will promote educational excellence, fiscal responsibility, and parental rights in the State of Nevada.
Alliance Looking At Education Reform Today
7575 Shadow Lane
Sparks, NV 89434
Contact: Lezlie Porter
Phone: 775-626-2266
Fax: 775-626-2267
Email: lezlie@lezlieporter.com
Citizens Education Association
87 Washington St.
Exeter, NH 03833-2018
Contact: Ms. Betsy J. Ward
Email: BJWEXE@TTLC.net
New Hampshire Parents Association
132 English Village Road, Apt. 301
Manchester, NH 03102-2467
Contact: Mr. Bernard Luebkert
Phone: 603-647-1851
Fax: 603-647-1851
Organizations of Concerned Citizens
P.O. Box 305
Merrimack, NH 03054
Contact: Mr. Roy Neuberger
Founded by Roy Neuberger, Organizations of Concerned Citizens has a variety of concerns -- crime, violence against children, the deterioration of the family, drug use -- in addition to educational issues, including the use of a whole language approach to language arts, the percentage of education tax dollars actually get into the classroom, and officials' strategy -- or lack thereof -- for improving overall school performance.
Active Citizens
and Taxpayers of New Jersey, Inc.
56 Hutchinson Street
Clark, NJ 07066-1725
Contact: Mr. John Schroeck
Phone: 732-388-9541
Fax: 732-388-9232 *51
Email: njtxprl@aol.com
Website: www.actnj.cjb.net
Non-partisan and non-political in structure, Active Citizens and Taxpayers perseveres to place issues on ballots for the binding vote "of the people;" to reduce taxes and eliminate "intrusive, expensive government;" to recall elected representatives who prove to be ineffective and unresponsive to their constituencies; and, lastly, to call for publicly available audits of all government departments.
Active Citizens and Taxpayers also opposes outcome-based education and, since its inception, has struggled against the stranglehold that the NJEA seems to have on that state's schools and legislative body. Check its frequently updated 24-hour hotline for further information; as this group espouses, "informed citizens are informed voters."
Alliance for
Parental Involvement in Education (AllPIE)
PO Box 59
East Chatham, NY 12060-0059
Contact: Mr. Seth Rockmuller
Phone: 518-392-6900
Email: allpiesr@aol.com
The Alliance for Parental Involvement in Education (AllPIE) provides information about school choice and other reform-related issues, and assists and encourages parental involvement in education -- whether in public or private schools or at home.
Center for Empowerment
5895 Indian Neck Ln
Peconic, NY 11958
Contact: Bill Fibkens
Phone: 516-472-1207
Fax: 516-472-0677
Located on Long Island, the Center for Empowerment believes that many intervention systems now in schools and communities to help young people no longer work; they don't work for children, families, or the concerned educators and community members who are trying to help. The Center sees the need for new methods of intervention and strives to do just that: its primary mission, according to its founder, Bill Fibkens, is "to provide low-cost training for educators and concerned citizens on how they can...develop school and community programs that...address the growing needs of teenagers."
Workshops at the Center for Empowerment last two days; Bill and his staff can also come to your school, business, or agency site to run a program.
Citizens for Educational Freedom
Capitol District Chapter
21 Indian Pipe Drive
Wynantskill, NY 12198
Esteem:
Empire
State Taskforce for Excellence in Educational Methods
P.O. Box 346
Waverly, NY 14892
Phone: 607-565-7289
Esteem, located in Waverly, NY, and run by Aldo Bernardo, wants real, tangible improvements in the education of public school students. Esteem's primary goal is to promote an educational environment in which every student is encourage to reach his or her potential, and true academic excellence is upheld.
To that end, Esteem opposed the New York State Education Department's New Compact for Learning, a vehicle for delivering the goals and mandates of the federal programs known as Goals 2000, and while the Compact expired recently, its ideas still persist. But Esteem is working with Richard Mills, NY's new Commissioner of Education, who recently endorsed that state's regents exams and seems to be listening to what Esteem espouses. He addressed the group's last annual meeting, and, as Aldo said, "We really put him to the test."
National Parents Alliance
Laranda Farm
P.O. Box 297
North Salem, NY 10560
Phone: 914-669-8165
People About Choice in Education (PACE)
110 Butler
Brooklyn, NY 11231
Contact: Mr. Donald Murphy
Phone: 718-488-8858
United New Yorkers For Choice in Education
P.O. Box 4096
Hempstead, NY 11551-4096
Phone: 516-292-1224
Fax: 516.292.9019
Email: unyce@earthlink.net
Tim Mulhearn, the president of United New Yorkers for Choice in Education, publishes a bi-monthly newsletter filled with information about the school choice scene. As he wrote in a past column, his organization supports parents who want to be part of their children's education and the "stengthening, not weakening, [of] the traditional family."
He summarizes the education activity of public bodies including the State Legislature and the State Board of Regents, and he provides names, addresses, and phone numbers for interested and active citizens to contact their representative and make their positions known. UNYCE is supporting a school choice bill that is presently in the education committees of the state's assembly and senate.
Financial Reform for Excellence in Education
200 Stags Trail
Chapel Hill, NC 27516
Phone: 919.967.1029
Fax: 919.933.1818
North
Carolina Education Reform Foundation
3510 Manford Drive
Durham, NC 27707
Phone: 888.294.3312
Fax: 919.419.8833
The NCERF has done important work in North Carolina. Vernon Robinson, the Foundation's president, was the first to call for charter schools in this state, way back in 1991, and he and his group have been working hard to bring that call to fruition. As a result, as of the summer of 1997, 34 charter schools have been approved to open in NC.
NCERF's Charter School Support Center works to link approved charter schools to the foundation and corporate charitable community; builds support in the business community and General Assembly for the expansive vision of charter schools; uses the media to get information out to the public about charter schools; and provides discussion and on-site assistance to help charter schools. Another part of NCERF, its Freedom Schools Now project supports moving the African-American church back into the primary and secondary school business.
Harmony Center
P.O. Box 37763
Cincinnati, OH 45222
Contact: Mr. David Nordyke
Phone: 513-761-9700
Fax: 513-821-8761
Harmony Center is an active voice for school choice in this part of Ohio, focusing its work on what could be, as well as improving what already is. Harmony Center believes that quality education does not evolve from a single or specific reform but from a variety of options that can provide choices for all children -- one size does not fit all.
For a small membership fee, citizens can take advantage of a variety of services offered by Harmony Center. Parents can take advantage of research on educational issues, discounts on books and periodicals, and workshops that, for example, help a parent become an activist for school change. Groups wishing to start a charter school can take advantage of the Ohio Center for Charter Schools, which is housed at Harmony Center. It can help burgeoning schools find funding, market themselves, develop curriculum, submit an application, and so on. The Center also sponsors community events, such as "education roundtables."
Hope for Ohio's Children
807 Society Building
159 S. Main Street
Akron, OH 44308
Phone: (800) 827-HOPE
Fax: 330.762.3938
Summit Education Initiative
39 E. Market St., Ste. 100
Akron, OH 44308
Phone: 330.535.8833
a non-profit organization in Summit County, Ohio working to improve education for ALL
children (public, private & parochial). Our work revolves around the
implementation of Academic Standards, increased the quantity and quality of
Professional Development, Engaging and Informing Community, and the
creation of partnerships throughout the region in an Education
Transformation Network.
We work quite a bit with the Education Trust, the Kettering Foundation, and
the Research Triangle Institute.
www.seisummit.org
Committee for Oklahoma Education Reform
7320 Rumsey Road
Oklahoma City, OK 73132
Contact: John Hyde
Phone: 405-721-4899
Oregon Education Coalition
130 SW Carey Lane
Portland, OR 97219
Contact: Mr. Robert Kremer
Phone: 503-317-6322
Fax: 503-252-4866Website: www.oregoneducation.org
Email: info@oregoneducation.org
Oregon Education Consumers Association
01630 SW Carey Lane
Portland, OR 97219
(503) 317-6322
Website: http://www.oregoneducation.org/
Email: info@OregonEducation.org
The OECA makes use of the extensive expertise and knowledge of its network of supporters, who send in cutting edge research and opinion on various aspects of education from all over the United States, such as charter schools, phonics, or Outcome Based Education. The OECA posts such information to its web site, as well as offers subject specific e-mail news bulletins subscription which provide information and links to articles. Information and updates are also available by mail for supporters who do not have access to e-mail.
Concerned Citizens of S.E. Delco
214 Blunston Ave.
Collingdale, PA 19023
Contact: Mr. Byron Mundy
Phone: 610-583-1200 or 610-534-2833
Fax: 610-583-1201
Email: byronmundy@aol.com
Byron Mundy and Concerned Citizens of SE Delco work to provide more information about schools for the public; help elect and support school board members who will protect the interests of both taxpayers and students; and network with other citizen groups across Pennsylvania to share information on laws passed in Harrisburg.
Outraged by the enormous salaries negotiated by unionized teachers in SE Delco, even though it has the second lowest per capita income of any district in Delaware County, Concerned Citizens of SE Delco wants more money for student programs, improved facilities, and building maintenance, without raising taxes. As Byron wrote in a recent letter to the Delaware County Sunday Times, "Our SE Delco School Board should continue to request real reductions in teacher pay, and informed citizens would be wise to show their support."
Gateway Citizens for Education Reform
2165 Ramsey Road
Monroeville, PA 15146
Contact: Ms. Virginia Parker
Phone: 412-856-4424
Fax: 412-856-1026
Oxford Taxpayers Association
3700 Lyon Bong Mill Road
Oxford, PA 19363
Contact: Mr. John Boyd
Parent Student Advocates
907 Savey Street
Duquesne, PA 15110
Phone: 412-469-0842
REACH Alliance
P.O. Box 1283
513 North Second Street
Harrisburg, PA 17108-1283
Phone: 717-238-1878
Fax: 717.232.5046
Newsletter: www.paschoolchoice.org.
Founded in 1991 to coordinate efforts to pass school choice legislation in Pennsylvania, REACH -- the Road to Educational Achievement Through Choice -- is a broad and diverse coalition that includes members of the business community, labor unions, ethnic and religious organizations, parents, and taxpayer groups, with over 200,000 members in every corner of Pennsylvania. REACH has launched a newsletter, Pennsylvania's Grassroots Coalition for School Choice, which has a web site at www.paschoolchoice.org.
Tax Payers Organized for Better Government
148 West Dale Road
Upper Darby, PA 19082
Contact: Ms. Serena Nino
Phone: 610-789-7658
Citizens for Choice in Education
411 Glover Street
Sturgis, SD 57785
Contact: Ms. Kay Glover
Phone: 605-347-2495
Fax: 605-347-6310
Putting Children
First
P.O. Box 1767
Austin, TX 78767-9886
Phone: 512-476-6195
Putting Children First is dedicated to helping parents have the freedom of directing their children's education. Although Texas has pumped many dollars into its public education system since 1984, instituted new controls on schools and teachers and promoted statewide curriculum standards, almost 800 of its 1044 school districts have less than 70% of their students pass the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills test, the state's measure of academic excellence.
Putting Children First believes that Texan parents and their children deserve better, and its work has three focuses: to implement a choice pilot program for under-performing schools; to expand charter school options; and to increase parental access to public education grants. Sharelene Steed and her daughter Cortaney have already taken advantage of PCF's help with grants: thanks to a partial scholarship from a foundation, Cortaney is now attending a more challenging school. Putting Children First believes all young people should have that same opportunity.
Choice in Learning
2961 South 500 East
South Salt Lake City, UT 84106
Contact: Mr. Steven Barrowes
Phone: 801-467-0354
Mothers for Educational Excellence
1749 Stone Ridge Dr.
Bountiful, UT 84010
Contact: Julie Hamilton
Phone: 801-298-1157
West Corp, Inc.
7070 S. Union Park Center, Suite 340
Midvale, UT 84047
Contact: Tom Teglassy
Phone: 801-568-9888
Fax: 801-568-2747
Email: teglassy@utw.com
Vermonters for Better Education
170 Church Street
Rutland, VT 05701
Phone: 802-773-3740
Website: www.schoolreport.com
VBE is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization whose mission is to enlist parents and the public at large in achieving quality educational opportunities for all the children of Vermont by monitoring the state of education in Vermont; promoting the value of educational freedoms for all parents; and giving parents the evaluative tools with which to identify excellence. VBE publishes the Vermont Education Report, covering education news in Vermont and beyond. Visit www.schoolreport.com for more information.
Vermonters for
Educational Choice
RR1Box 929
Pittsford, VT 05763
VEC adheres to three simple premises: that parents bear the primary responsibility for their children's education; that all children are different, and therefore no single educational program or approach is best for all; and that it is the community's responsibility to ensure that access to quality education is available to all households, regardless of income. To that end, VEC promotes local control of schools, rather than state control, and more opportunity for school choice in the Green Mountain State.
Citizens for Responsible Education
P.O. Box 240
Bowling Green, VA 22427
Contact: Mr. Glenn McDearmon
Phone: 804-222-6688 or 800-959-0542
Virginians for Educational Excellence
1493 Bremerton Lane
Keswick, VA 22947
Contact: Ms. Patricia Earle
Phone: 804-977-6763
Fax: 804-977-6760
Email: patearle2@AOL.com
Parent Advisory Council
Box 245
Laurier, WA 99146
Contact: Julie O'Brien
Alliance for Children and Families
11700 West Lake Park Drive
Milwaukee, WI 53224
Contact: Linda Wheeler
Phone: 800-221-3726
Email: lwheeler@alliance1.org
The Center for Parent Alternatives
2025 N. Summit Ave., Suite 103
Milwaukee, WI 53202
Contact: Ms. Joni Goldberg
Phone: 414-319-1117
Fax: 414-765-0220
Concerned Citizens for Superior Education
5617 Johns Avenue
Superior, WI 54880
Contact: Mr. Thomas Paradice
Parents For School Choice
2541 North 46th Street
Milwaukee, WI 53210-2921
Phone: 414-933-7778
Fax: 414.873.0669
Parents Raising Educational Standards in Schools (PRESS) P.O. Box 26913 Milwaukee, WI 53226 Contact: Ms. Leah Vukmir Phone: 414-607-3950 Fax: 414-607-3951 Email: presswis@execpc.com Website: www.execpc.com/~presswis
PRESS is a grass roots education group started by a handful but now made up of hundreds of school board members, parents, educators and civic leaders who are motivated, dedicated, and concerned about their children’s education.
Wisconsin Education Reform Network
3806 Patrick Henry Way
Middleton, WI 53562
Contact: Mr. Robert Luebke
Phone: 608-836-8108
Wyoming Citizens for Educational Choice
1055 Hidalgo Dr.
Laramie, WY 82072
Contact: Ms. Nancy Hamilton
Phone: 307-721-9541
Email: treyham@uwyo.edu
Wyoming Deserves Educational Choice (WYDEC)
610 Saratoga
Green River, WY 82935
Phone: 307-875-9745
Fax: 307-875-9745
Coalition for Education Reform
81 Scriberras road
Unionville, Ontario, CAN L3R2J5
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