Not your mother's PTA: beyond the call for desegregation, community organizations of parents and students of color are building campaigns for racial equity within and beyond the schools.
Colorlines Magazine › Vol. 7 Nbr. 2, June 2004
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Not your mother's PTA: beyond the call for desegregation, community organizations of parents and students of color are building campaigns for racial equity within and beyond the schools.
While Bush touts his No Child Left Behind law that does little to increase federal funding for public education, it is young people and their parents who are pushing the envelope on school reform issues. Community-based organizations that mobilize parents or children (and increasingly, both) around education equity have grown in the last 10 years. A 2002 New York University report counts "at least 200 community groups across the country currently engaged in struggling for better local public schools." And, as James Mumm, codirector of Mothers on the Move (MOM), an organization of parents in the South Bronx, puts it, "This is not your mother's PTA."
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] You can find these community groups in working-class neighborhoods of large metropolitan cities, like MOM in New York or Generation Y in Chicago, but they are just as likely to surface in small towns, like Indian People's Action in Missoula,...See the full content of this document
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