Creating the Parents' Guide
The New Orleans Parents' Guide to Public Schools is produced each year by the New Orleans Parent Organizing Network. The Parents' Guide was developed through a partnership with Agenda for Children, New Schools for New Orleans, Operation Reach, Inc. and the Urban League of Greater New Orleans. These organizations worked together to launch the Parents' Guide in the summer of 2007 in collaboration with the Recovery School District and the New Orleans Public School system.
The New Orleans Parent Organizing Network supports parents to organize for excellent public schools. By employing community organizing strategies and developing parent leaders, New Orleans Parent Organizing Network builds strong parent groups that support families in advocating for excellent public schools and making the best decisions for their children.
The mission of Agenda For Children is to make Louisiana a state in which all children can thrive, by ensuring that the basic needs of children and families are met; that our children are nurtured and well taught, beginning in the early years and continuing through adolescence; that they are protected from harm; and by acting in ways that combat racism and other forms of oppression.
Learn more at www.agendaforchildren.org
Operation Reach is a non-profit corporation dedicated to providing access for youth and their families to high-quality educational opportunities. Our programs are designed to foster life-long learning and personal success in the areas of work, recreation and community service.
Learn more at www.operationreach.org
New Schools for New Orleans is working to achieve excellent public schools for every child in New Orleans by attracting and preparing talent to teach and lead, launching and supporting open-enrollment public charter schools, and advocating for accountability and sustainability of high-quality public schools.
Learn more at www.newschoolsforneworleans.org
Urban League of Greater New Orleans is one of 105 Urban League affiliates throughout the country. In 1910, the National Urban League was founded to champion basic human rights for African Americans in this country. Through advocacy, community organization and mobilization and program services in areas of education, economic development, employment and training, youth services and child and family support, the League's mission of helping individuals to attain economic self-sufficiency remains virtually unchanged.
Learn more at www.urbanleagueneworleans.org
