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Parent Voice Education Doesn’t Belong at the Department of Labor: Unpacking the Latest Interagency Agreements

Context: Shifting critical department of education offices to other agencies The Trump Administration has begun to shift critical ...

Parent Voice A Parent’s Right: Advocating for your Child

By Kevin Brathwaite, Guest Blogger When my children first started school, I thought being a “good parent” meant showing up — going to ...

Policy When Systems Falter, Families Must Anchor Education

By Rev. Manikka Bowman An old African proverb says: “It takes a village to raise a child.” Yet America’s public education ...

Parent Voice NAEP and Choice: Something’s Not Adding Up

By Charles Barone, National Parents Union Senior Director of the Center for Innovation Two significant events occurred on the national ...

Parent Voice The Voice Box — 11 Ways to (Re)Discover a Love of Reading

  By Emilie Martin, NPU Center for Parent Voice   If you read my last blog post, you know that I love to read. I often joke that ...

Parent Voice The Voice Box — In My Bookish Era

  By Emilie Martin, NPU Center for Parent Voice The first book I remember describing as my favorite was The Last of the Really Great ...

Parent Voice The Voice Box — Three things to know as the parent of transgender youth

  By Christine Pitts, Guest Blogger On Mother’s Day this year, I was tucking in my transgender daughter, Lexi. She gave me an ...

Parent Voice The Voice Box — Raising a Queer Teen in a Complex World

  By Patti Humble, Guest Blogger   My dearest friend asked me if I would write this for Pride Month. Actually, her exact words ...

Parent Voice Don’t Believe the Hype #9

ISSUE #9 — Navigating the social landscape of a PWI as a Queer POC June 20, 2024 Since June is Pride Month, I have invited guest blogger, ...

Parent Voice A TALE OF TWO CITIES: A story of two mothers struggling to break down barriers in the public education system

By: Ashara Baker, NPU Center for Parent Voice   This spring has been a theme for me around parent power. Not the predictable kind ...