Smith said parental involvement is critical for student success. Her bill would ensure that parental involvement would be constantly in the minds of educators and consistently applied across the entire state. And we need to help foster that. The two Assembly bills are based on research-generated standards by the national PTA on the best ways to encourage parental involvement, Clark said. Not all school administrators want actively involved parents, so the polices in Smith's bill are important, she said.
Every parent knows where their flaws are.
Debbie Cahill, a lobbyist for the Nevada State Education Association, said the national PTA program contained in the Assembly bills will provide the highest chance of success. If it is just going to be sent out in the mail because parents aren't participating, it won't accomplish much. It would just be an enormous waste of time to generate those documents. Lucille Lusk, a lobbyist for the nonprofit Nevada Concerned Citizens, said she too has concerns with Raggio's proposal. The need for funding as outlined in Perkins' bill is also questionable, she said, because the parental involvement it speaks of should be taking place currently as a matter of course.