Concerned Parents' Web Sites

• Education Consumers Association of Fort Worth & Crowley. Tremendous site, with indepth information about education issues such as OBE, School to Work, and Phonics. Many internet links to news articles and organizations. "Developed to raise public awareness about programs and practices in local K-12 classrooms that undermine the quality of education, usurp the role of the parent, or go against our values."
• Brian Bruns' Edupage This page is to inform the citizens of the United States and North Platte, Nebraska of the education reform efforts underway. Over the past nine years, I have done extensive research on Outcome-Based Education, Whole Language vs Phonics, School-toWork, and other elements required to make school reform successful.
• CPR For the Family - Citizens for Preservation and Restoral of Families. Site claims to pull the mask off of "education reform". Site developed by parents in West Virginia.
• Citizens for Responsible Education Reform CRER is comprised of everyday Americans interested in furthering the cause of responsible education reform through the advancement of a better understanding of reform initiatives and legislation affecting children, parents, teachers, and communities. The organization takes a conservative, but realistic approach to seeking solutions to the failings of the American education system.
• PRESS (Parents Raising Educational Standards in Schools) PRESS is a non-profit, statewide organization of parents, grandparents, teachers, school board members and concerned citizens. The organization formed in March of 1994 in response to a growing number of concerns regarding the direction of education in the state of Wisconsin. PRESS is also reaching beyond the borders of Wisconsin to serve as a resource to parents and other organizations throughout our country who share similar concerns. PRESS is committed to raising academic standards by increasing parental awareness and involvement in the school reform process. Site has many good articles.

• Arizona Parents for Traditional Education Parents in Arizona who want to be informed about reform issues in education.
• Mathematically Correct Concerned parents and scientist about the New-New math and a need to restore basic skills.
• In Our Opinion The Tennisons in Oregon have filed a Federal law suit on behalf of four families in two school districts against the State Board of Education and the State Superintendent of Education declaring Oregon's Education Act unconstitutional.
• Honest Open Logical Debate on Math Reform Parents in the Palo Alto, CA, Unified School District concerned with math reform.
• Parent's Math Group Says Test Results Distorted Parents in the Palo Alto, CA, Unified School District.
• Unofficial School Page Plano, TX, Independent School District. Parent, Tim Williams and others developed this page to oppose a trio of school bond proposals they believed were excessive and poorly explained.
• Bill Bonville - Position Paper on OBE Oregon.
• ESTEEM (Empire State Task Force For Excellence In Educational Methods) Check out their Table of Contents and Links and Sites for many great articles and Internet Links.
• Parents for Improved Education Parents for informed education in Fairfax, Virginia County Public Schools.
• Grandfather Education Reform Report Two Grandfathers speak on the "Erosion of Education Quality and Productivity".
• Education E-Mail Loop Archives E-mail on an Education Loop.
• The California Homeschool Network. Good general education information.
• The Alliance for Parental Involvement in Education - Nonprofit organization which assists and encourages parental involvement in education, wherever that takes place: in public school, private school, or at home. A newsletter is available, annual conferences and retreats.

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