The State of Education – Student Outcomes Don’t Change Until Adult Behaviors Change Starting With me..., Starting with You... these conversations are parent led community conversations regarding educational challenges and opportunities.
The purpose of these discussions is to improve student outcomes, to bring awareness of educational issues and concerns, to encourage community participation/involvement in our neighborhood schools and to organize parents and community to become leaders.
We work with students, parents and community to help them use their voice and power to improve education in Houston:
- Monthly meetings focused on different topics.
- Connect parents with valuable resources.
- Give parents the tools and information to communicate directly with decision makers.
- Make the community pay attention to all schools and all children.
Why Parents Should Be Involved
As parents with children enrolled in schools in the Houston Education System, it is time for us to exercise our rights to be actively involved and engaged in the decision-making that affects our children’s education.
Pursuant to section 26.001 of the Texas Education Code, Parents are partners with educators, administrators, and school district boards of trustees in their children’s education. Parents shall be encouraged to actively participate in creating and implementing educational programs for their children.
Parents and families should be able to trust their local
school systems to provide their children with an education
that will prepare them for the future. Presently, many
children who live in and attend schools in historically
marginalized and under-resourced communities are not receiving
the quality education that will yield positive outcomes. Local
schools that serve historically marginalized communities have
been allowed to fail for too long. It is time for that to end.
The ultimate goal of the parents and families of
Discovering U’s State of Education is to improve outcomes for
students attending Houston-area schools.
A nonprofit is as strong as the community that holds it up.
Together, we can do more than we can do alone. Let's bring our
abilities and passions together to affect real change.
There are many ways to join us and support our mission. Contact us to find out more about volunteer opportunities, fundraising events, and ways that you can get our message to your friends and family.
Discovering U
P.O. Box 15566, Houston, Tx. 77020-9998
Phone: 713-633-0942 Fax: 713-751-5353
