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Growing up in a single-parent family in the gritty steel town of Norristown, Pa., he walked among the working poor and experienced the difficulties of inner-city life...
Several PUCC-sponsored activist initiatives have met with triumph. One example was the push to convince Harvard Dining Services to stick with Coke rather than Pepsi in dining halls, which PUCC supported because the latter's parent corporation had ties to the brutal military regime in Burma...
...didn't want to come at first because I thought it was all going to be boring parent stuff," said Emily Gische, 11. "But it's really...
...This is a holistic approach," says CoZi coordinator Lorraine Flood. "If parents are not sitting at the table, we don't find out the underlying reasons for children's academic or behavioral problems." When a mother of children at the school lost her husband to cancer recently, leaving her with six sons, parent technicians set up a workshop on grief. A welfare mother, who had put her child in foster care, found her self-confidence so built up by parenting and adult-education classes and her service in the PTA that she recovered her daughter and got a secretarial...
Once start-up costs were absorbed for remodeling school basements or buying modular units, the preschool and afterschool day care became mostly self-supporting: 85% of the $2 million program comes from parents' fees. "Schools should be a community hub," says fourth-grade teacher Darlene Shaw. In three decades at Sycamore Hills, she has witnessed profound change. "Out of my 23 students today, only one has a stay-at-home mom," she said. "Without consistent, quality day care, kids flounder. And for kids dealing with divorce and single-parent families, school is their stability when things are going crazy...