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	<description>dedicated to parents wanting to be involved and effective in the education of their children</description>
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		<title>Abolish School Boards - a movement?</title>
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Abolishing school boards would release intended education dollars to their intended targets &#8211; students.&#160; At the moment far too much of that earmarked money is skimmed off at the school board level for: a) junkets and expensive conferences/professional development for trustees, administrators, consultants, etc. many of whom have little direct relationship with students; b) professional [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://education-advisory.org/Involved/2009/11/23/abolish-school-boards-a-movement/</link>
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		<title>Nobel Winner, Elinor Ostrom, Offers Hope for Responsive Schools</title>
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Responsive Schools Key to Good Society: Elinor Ostrom, Nobel Winner
Can citizens effectively and efficiently manage their own affairs?&#160; Their own schools? Can self-governance work in education? YES, there is this hope for schools &#8212; provided there is limited central state interference and provided powerful special self-interest insiders don&#8217;t dominate.
That is the message Elinor Ostrom, a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://education-advisory.org/Involved/2009/11/04/nobel-winner-elinor-ostrom-offers-hope-for-responsive-schools/</link>
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		<title>Cease and Desist (C&#038;D) Letters to Parents</title>
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Sometimes parents are seriously discouraged from pursuing complaints or criticism through receipt of cease and desist letters from a School Board, teacher union, or other public service union related to schools.&#160; Here is an interesting article:
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http://www.parentseduchoice.org/links/Article%20-%20Canadian%20Family%20-%20Goliaths.pdf

Goliaths vs. Davids
Teachers&#8217; unions suing parents
By Andrew Nikiforuk
Canadian Family, March 2005, p. 28
In Alberta and British Columbia, two powerful teachers&#8217; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://education-advisory.org/Involved/2009/10/31/cease-and-desist-cd-letters-to-parents/</link>
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		<title>BC Education System Creaking, Cracking, Croaking!</title>
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I just published in a local blog the following comment on mismanagement and &#34;accounting errors&#34; in Langley School District.&#160; I infer from my comments that this may not be the only jurisdiction with major bookkeeping and reporting flaws. I am calling for a full-scale forensic accounting examination of the accounts, reporting and due diligence of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://education-advisory.org/Involved/2009/09/11/bc-education-system-creaking-cracking-croaking/</link>
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		<title>Precious Cartoon for Back-to-School</title>
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With ever more demand for choices in education&#8211; from parents, students, teachers &#8212; here is a CARTOON which says it all.
Print it out in full color, post it on your bulletin board, fridge. Pass it on! 
http://education-advisory.org/Involved/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/back-to-school-cartoon-from-vic-lee2.pdf
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This URL will work if you copy and paste it into address bar.
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		<link>http://education-advisory.org/Involved/2009/09/01/precious-cartoon-for-back-to-school/</link>
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		<title>Privacy in the Internet Age</title>
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On July 30/09 I saw this interesting interview with the host on CNN with Kyra Phillips:
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education-advisory.org/Involved/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/privacy-in-the-internet-age-cnn-090730.pdf
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It relates to parent rights and duties and student rights.
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		<link>http://education-advisory.org/Involved/2009/08/04/privacy-in-the-internet-age/</link>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Talk About Schools</title>
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In 1984 we had a two year process of public discussion in BC which precededd a new School Act, 1989.&#160; The Discussion Paper had 41 points which helped focus people&#8217;s participation on key issues.&#160; The Condensed form of paper is here:
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[ISBN 0-7719-9971-2] [British Columbia Ministry of Education] 
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Let&#8217;s Talk About Schools 
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A DISCUSSION PAPER ON [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://education-advisory.org/Involved/2009/02/18/lets-talk-about-schools/</link>
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		<title>Parent Rights a Top Priority for Education Responsiveness</title>
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How well parents exercise their rights determines what degree or quality of services they get in public schools.&#160; It is quite different in independent or private schools as there the customers are usually treated as paying customers.&#160; So, how can parents exercise their expectations and rights better, across the socio-economic spectrum?
People often think that by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://education-advisory.org/Involved/2009/01/13/parent-rights-a-top-priority-for-education-responsiveness/</link>
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		<title>Parents Need Effective Tools in Education</title>
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Parents need easy and accessible tools for effective advocacy and guidance of their children in pursuing their best interests in education,&#160; Effective tools are those that give parents confidence and empower them.&#160; Some of these might help.
I&#8217;m starting a new category &#8211; TOOLS 4 Effective Parents &#8212; which will include the following in Pdf form [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://education-advisory.org/Involved/2008/12/19/parents-need-effective-tools-in-education/</link>
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		<title>On visiting this site&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On first coming to this site please be aware:
&#160;1. ARCHIVES 
I&#8217;m using this site to gather, record, sort, etc. tons of archive material I&#8217;ve gathered regarding the struggle for effective parent involvement in education.&#160;Much of the material relates to my own personal involvement and thoughts.
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&#160;2. TOOLS
I also include tools produced to help parents and public [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://education-advisory.org/Involved/2008/12/11/on-visiting-this-site/</link>
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