@article{1355320,
      recid = {1355320},
      author = {Takata, James, and Takata, Jennifer Welsh, and Mollo,  Michael John,},
      title = {We the parents /},
      pages = {1 online resource (61 minutes)},
      note = {Title from resource description page (viewed April 06,  2016).},
      abstract = {Public education has been an American value since before  the Revolution, and it has, to put it mildly, weathered its  share of storms. While the decentralized nature of our  schools has allowed flexibility, creativity, and reform to  take hold more swiftly than in other cultures, it has also  allowed great inequities to become entrenched. With local  property taxes the usual basis for funding, this is a  system of 'Them that's got shall get, Them that's not shall  lose.' James Takata's documentary We the Parents chronicles  the fight to pass and test California's 'parent trigger'  law, which provides a mechanism for parents to take on a  failing school, possibly firing the principal or handing it  over to a charter-school company. Takata masterfully tells  a tale of struggling families in Compton who want more for  their young children than the woefully inadequate  instruction they apparently get at their local elementary.  These poor, non-college-educated parents, just like those  in the suburbs, see great potential in their children and  believe they're entitled to a good, even excellent,  education. Takata shines a light on people's lives as they  realize what power they have. Even in his news-feature  style, he provides suspense, heartache, victory, defeat,  hope. We the Parents is a must-see civics lesson, an  example of the power of grassroots organizing and of having  a good lawyer, and of how seemingly small ideas can make  big waves.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1355320},
}