Community assistants program provides training and stipends to parents to serve as classroom aides.
Parent Network meets to review school and community calendars and to get word out to parents about events. Approximately six parents a day visit the parenting center, which houses computers and lending library. Fifty parents volunteer as classroom aides each week. From 1993 to 1996, the percentage of first-graders reading on grade level increased from 5 to 37 percent. From 1993 to 1996, the number of disciplinary referrals dropped from 586 to 267.