Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña on Saturday blamed prior administrations for shutting out parents and laid out plans to get them more involved during her tenure.
“When parents are engaged at the school and district level, children and schools benefit,” she told 300 teaching students and instructors at Columbia University’s Teachers College. “We know they’ve been shut out for far too long.”
The Department of Education has already begun forming parent advisory groups and is “infusing parents into many of our existing structures,” Farina said.
The DOE will also hold three full-day parent conferences in May and June on curriculum and strategies to increase parent involvement.