{"id":6199,"date":"2015-09-30T08:54:23","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T13:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gnof.org\/?p=6199"},"modified":"2015-09-30T08:54:42","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T13:54:42","slug":"stand-for-children-educates-parents-about-the-orleans-parish-school-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/gnof\/stand-for-children-educates-parents-about-the-orleans-parish-school-board\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Stand For Children&#8217; Educates Parents About The Orleans Parish School Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/226265048&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nStand For Children educates and organizes parents, teachers and communities to demand excellent schools.<\/p>\n<p>Up a flight of stairs in an airy meeting room overlooking Saint Claude Avenue, Dana Henry is getting ready for a gathering \u2014 the Orleans Parish parent endorsement committee training. It\u2019s a get-together for parents to learn more about the Orleans Parish School Board: what it does, and who parents should back to be on it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201c<\/strong>Stand for Children is really the only organization in the city that focuses strictly on organizing parents to support good policies in public education,\u201d says Dana Henry, the New Orleans Director for Stand for Children. \u201cThe parents in our organization are really the backbone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This national non-profit helps New Orleans parents become better education advocates in all sorts of ways: how to have a productive conversation in parent teacher conferences, or what to do when a really challenging homework assignment gets slapped onto the kitchen table after a long day of work. But Stand for Children also teach parents about policy. Which ones are good \u2014 for kids and public education \u2014 and which ones aren\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201c<\/strong>So tonight,\u201d explains Henry, \u201cwe\u2019re going to have a School board member, Woody Koppel\u00a0\u2014 who\u2019s here \u2014 to talk to our parents about the functional roles of an Orleans Parish School Board Member. We don\u2019t want to assume that everybody knows, because we have a BESE board, we have RSD, so we want everybody to understand from a board member what are the primary responsibilities and roles of an Orleans Parish School Board Member.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>RSD, OPSB, BESE. There are so many structures in charge of education in New Orleans, and on many \u2014 like OPSB, the Orleans Parish School Board \u2014 the people who run them are elected. And they make big policy decisions that affect kids\u2019 lives in schools.<\/p>\n<p>Stand for Children wants parents to endorse and elect candidates they truly believe in \u2014 candidates who share their views about education. The first step is understanding what a school board member does. Which brings us back to this meeting at Stand for Children.<\/p>\n<p>Director Dana Henry asks Orleans Parish School Board Member Woody Koppel: \u201cAs we go through our endorsement process here and we interview candidates, is it safe to say that the school board member of the future in Orleans Parish would be more like high level business managers&#8217; day, as opposed to day-to-day people that implement?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of the parents in the room listening is Mike Stenson.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201c<\/strong>We\u2019re here to get more information on the people who are going to be running for school board,\u201d explains Stenson. \u201cThat way we have a better knowledge on who we\u2019re voting for, who would represent things we want represented if they get elected. It\u2019s important to have people there who share your views. If they don\u2019t, then you end up having a school board that doesn\u2019t vote in things that you want voted in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t realize that change has to take place at the development, the policy level,\u201d says Cyndi Nguyen, another parent at the meeting. In her two years coming to Stand for Children meetings, Nguyen says she\u2019s learned how to talk to leaders on the front end;\u00a0how to say: this is what we need before\u00a0they establish bad education policy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo it used to be where things would come down, and you would go out and be upset,\u201d recalls Nguyen. \u201cI found this process is more educational. It actually trains me how to deliver my message to a policy maker where it makes sense to them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nguyen says you have to break it down for them. When it comes to education, some policy makers have no idea what parents go through.<\/p>\n<p><em>Written by Eve Abrams for the Community IMPACT Series and produced by WWNO in partnership with the Greater New Orleans Foundation. Learn more about <a href=\"http:\/\/stand.org\/louisiana\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">Stand for Children Louisiana<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stand For Children educates and organizes parents, teachers and communities to demand excellent schools. Up a flight of stairs in an airy meeting room overlooking Saint Claude Avenue, Dana Henry is getting ready for a gathering \u2014 the Orleans Parish parent endorsement committee training. 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