The parents help Medrano plan PTA meetings and parental involvement sessions dealing with health, violence and immigration. We believe parents need to get involved in their children s education, Medrano said. They really make a difference. They are a very essential part of a student s educational life. The schools include Central, Vela and Cummings middle schools and Rivera and Porter high schools.
Principals decide whether they want to have community liaison coordinators on their staffs.
Other BISD schools have parental liaisons who primarily check attendance. CLCs make a difference because they deal directly with the parents in the schools, Cardenas said. They don t count as volunteers, but they are in my own definition. Martha Rangel, mother of a former Central Middle School student who now attends Pace High School, became a volunteer at Central four years ago. She still works there because one of her younger daughters, who is now in elementary school, one day will go there.