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Hooray for Volunteers!
As the school budget crisis gets worse, the parents at Fairburn Elementary School get busier.
Walk around campus and you’ll see examples everywhere of parents working with and for students. Reading Buddies matches parents and students who read withand to each other during lunch. Parents of English Language Learners volunteer in the EL classrooms bringing their skills in another language to reading instruction. “Our parents are an integral part of our learning community,” explains Principal Elizabeth Abramowitz. “They contribute in concrete ways to the success of our students.” That success is considerable. Fairburn’s 2009 API is 957. The parent component is growing as school resources diminish. “When money for intervention programs was cut, parents figured out how they could help,” says Ms. Abramowitz. The parent center is another example. The school’s parent center shares space with the science lab. “The school didn’t have room for both,” explains Michelle Goodman, who has two children at Fairburn. “Parenting workshops, |
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