The United Parents of Culver City are please to offer the nation's first Parent Union podcast. The first United Parents Podcast is now ready for download through iTunes (to subscribe search “United Parents”) or at: http://unitedparentsculvercity.com/podcast/
The United Parents Podcast looks at current education issues around the country and the Culver City Unified School District in Los Angeles County from the perspective of a parent union. The podcast promotes an educational culture that places the interests of students first.
The podcast was created by two of the Political Action Committee members of the United Parents of Culver City (UPCC), Scott McVarish and Scott Kecken.
UPCC gives parents a voice in the political process to positively impact the lives of Culver City families.
We promote an educational culture that places the interests of students before those of adults. UPCC’s Political Action Committee organizes the financial and political power of parents to support candidates and issues that promote a student-first agenda in our city and school district. We are 100-plus paid members strong, and we are just getting started. Join us!
For more information, contact podcast@unitedparentsculvercity.org
Former School Board member Madeline Ehlrich says: “With much interest, the first thing I did this morning was to listen to the first podcast of UPCC, United Parents of Culver City. I am very impressed and elated by this informative, interesting, positive and very professional message given by Steve Levin, President of UPCC, and Scott McVarish and Scott Kecken, Board members of UPCC.
The basic message was about the goals of the organization and how they plan to execute and work with our new Supt. David LaRose, School Board members and the school community.
By the way, the superintendent and UPCC share one of the same mantras, “Children First.” Last spring when all the brouhaha started with school booster clubs and El Marino Language School’s ALLEM (Advocates for Learning Language, El Marino) Adjuncts vs. the union ACE (Assn. of Classified Employees), a group of forward thinking parents took the lemons and have made great lemonade.
Instead of allowing this to become a divisive issue, it grew, instead, into a unifying force with parents from all schools coming together to work on common goals, putting children first. UPCC was launched.
I look at this as a huge cultural change in education, long overdue in our city. As a former School Board member and lifelong advocate of public education, I am profoundly pleased with this new venture.
There never can be too much parent involvement in any school district. We are giving our children a fine example to follow. To see parents and community members, of which I am one, come together to become more politically active and work diligently on behalf of all children is most gratifying.
I urge all of you to take a little time and listen to the podcast, http://unitedparentsculvercity.com/podcast/.
I truly believe that you will come away as impressed as I was and feel that urge to be involved in this movement.
Ms. Ehrlich may be contacted at PMSHA@aol.com
