Lisa Berlanga, Executive Director of UPforEd: Credit: seattleducation2010.wordpress.com Teacher evaluation reform is long overdue in the San Diego Unified School District. The benefits of overhauling the system could result in better educational outcomes for students, but there is resistance to changing this old-school process that harms not only kids, but also teachers. I began my career as a teacher in SDUSD in the early 1990s. As a new teacher, I needed support to manage forty kindergartner...

UPforEd and a few of its parent activists attended the San Diego mayoral debate on education Tuesday  at the University of San Diego. The debate between San Diego mayoral candidates Representative Bob Filner and Councilman Carl DeMaio covered their views on the role of parents in San Diego city schools. Speaking before a packed house with nationally-syndicated columnist Ruben Navarrette, Jr., both politicians expressed a deep commitment to improving public education, but managed to ruffle few f...

Source: UPforEd.org A movement began at a kitchen table in San Diego. Soon, a handful of PTA moms and dads became a grassroots faction and founded a nonprofit called San Diego United Parent for Education, or UPforEd. Parent activism in San Diego schools is uprooting and challenging the status quo in California's second largest school district. "I had no idea that suggesting parents take an interest in education was radical, but I'm cool with that so long as it means I'm fighting for my kids,"...