Education Sector

L.A. Story: Can a Parent Revolution Change Urban Education's Power Structure?

Education Sector
July 25, 2006
Joe Williams and Tom Mirga

In 1990 Steve Barr "rocked the vote" in America by helping to engineer an upswing in voting among 18- to 24-year-olds with the help of musicians and other pop culture icons. Now the 47-year-old political operative and education entrepreneur is tapping into the frustrations of working-class parents in Los Angeles to rock the city's public schools to their core.

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