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A look at our work in 2025
In a year marked by uncertainty for public education, one thing remained clear: when families organize, change follows. In 2025, Innovate partnered with parents and caregivers across California to build power, strengthen leadership, and win meaningful improvements in...
Families, Educators, and Community Partners Unite to Expand High-Impact Tutoring Across San Mateo County
Innovate Public Schools was proud to co-host the San Mateo County High-Impact Tutoring Summit last week, a powerful gathering of families, school and district leaders, community partners, tutoring providers, and researchers committed to expanding equitable access to...
An Evening of Parent Leadership in Ravenswood
Innovate was proud to gather more than 50 parents, educators, and district leaders on November 11 in Ravenswood for an evening of dialogue and collaboration focused on increasing parent engagement and supporting student success. The event highlighted a powerful truth:...
What California’s Top Schools Reveal About Equity in Education
For the first time in our Innovate's history, our Top Schools Report includes a review of schools across California, and the results are both inspiring and urgent. At a webinar this week, educators, school leaders, and parents came together to celebrate these bright...
Families Lead the Way: Building Solutions for Special Education in SFUSD
Innovate was proud to gather families, educators, advocates, and district leaders on November 5 at the Southeast Community Center for Families First: Special Education & Solutions in SFUSD. Together, we confronted a difficult truth: too many San Francisco Unified...
Advancing Education Equity: Join Innovate’s Fall Event Series!
This fall, Innovate Public Schools is bringing families, educators, and community leaders together to take action for education equity across California. Our events are focused on empowering parents, strengthening schools, and ensuring every student gets the...
Parents at the Center: 2025 Parent Leadership Institute Brings Hope, Power, and Action
On September 20–21, 2025, nearly 100 parent leaders and 50 children came together for the 2025 Innovate Parent Leadership Institute (PLI). Parents traveled from across California and as far as Colorado to be in community, to learn, and to lead. What unfolded was a...
Celebrating California’s Top Schools: Leading the Way to a More Equitable Future
For the first time in Innovate Public Schools’ history, our Top Schools Report is statewide, and the results are both inspiring and urgent. We analyzed all 9,158 public schools in California and identified just 550 Top Schools, accounting for only 6% of schools...
Parent Power Helps Advance Literacy Bill to Governor’s Desk
This week, lawmakers passed AB 1454, a landmark bill designed to close California’s literacy gap by bringing evidence-based reading strategies into classrooms.
Parent Organizing in Action: A Landmark Win
In 2020, Black and Latino families organized through Innovate and Parent Revolution sued Los Angeles Unified for failing to provide students with the tools for distance learning. This summer’s settlement affirms what we know: families are the most powerful advocates, and when parents organize, systems change.
Unlock Your Leadership Potential: Join the 2025 Jose Arenas Parent Leadership Institute!
Register today for the Jose Arenas Parent Leadership Institute on September 20-21, 2025!
Celebrating 2025 COTP Graduates
This July, Innovate Public Schools proudly celebrated the graduation of 18 new community organizers from our Community Organizer Training Program (COTP). These changemakers now join a growing alumni network of 253 graduates who are shaping a more just, inclusive, and...
Literacy is life – and we have the data to prove it!
For years, Innovate’s Black Parent Network has empowered Black parents and caregivers in San Francisco and Los Angeles to become leaders and advocates – strengthening community institutions and shaping the future of our children’s education. Through grassroots...
Community-driven AI: For families, by families
We all know that the people closest to the problem are the closest to the solution. So as AI technology becomes a bigger part of our education systems, we saw an opportunity: what if parents weren’t just included in the conversation, but leading it?Building an AI tool...
The fight for literacy is personal
At Innovate, we don’t do our work from a distance. We live it. In our neighborhoods, in school board meetings, and in conversations with parents who are navigating systems that weren’t designed for them, our commitment to educational equity is more than policy — it’s...
Expand access to high quality tutoring and after school enrichment for the students most impacted by the pandemic
Read Innovate parent leaders’ letter to Governor Gavin Newsom concerning the allocation of funding from the 2022-23 California budget.
Governor Newsom Signs Senate Bill 445 into Law
Authored by Senator Portantino, and co-sponsored by Innovate Public Schools, Disability Rights California, and Educate.Advocate. SB 445 requires the forthcoming statewide IEP template under development by the California Collaborative for Excellence in Education to be...
South LA Parents and Community Members Rally for Improved Black Student Literacy
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA In the heart of South Los Angeles, on Manchester Avenue at True LA Church, parents and community members called for increased focus, targeted funding and community support to improve the Black Student Literacy rate in LA County Schools. The “Literacy is Life” campaign highlights the 73% of Los Angeles Unified School District and 72% of Compton Unified School District Black third grade students who are not on grade level in English Language Arts.
Parent-Led Advocacy & SFUSD’s Policy 5023 Enhancing Language Access for EL Parents with IEPs
On Thursday May 2nd, Innovate Public Schools partnered with the San Francisco Unified School District to raise awareness and build support for Policy 5023: a language translation and interpretation policy designed to improve accessibility for parents of English Learner students with an IEP.
Parent Leaders Visit CA State Capitol to Keep Education Funding Opportunities in Newsom’s Budget
Parent leaders from across California organizing for education equity visit state legislators to uplift Black Student Achievement, Special Education and High Quality Tutoring. This March, Innovate staff and parent leaders represented Innovate at CalSac's 20th Annual...