About

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We work to eliminate the institutional and systemic silencing of the collective Parent voice in public education.

Utilizing classic community organizing as its foundation, the Parent Power Lab identifies and recruits parents to participate in a rigorous series of training whereby participants emerge as fully equipped Parent Leaders with the requisite knowledge, tools, and skills to build Parent teams that serve as the base of Kansas City’s Parent movement.

Our Core Belief

Organized Parents have the greatest long-term ability to positively impact a school community or school system to deliver excellent academic and human outcomes for children.

Our Formula

We Think

We Do

We Train
Parent Leaders

We Build a Parent Movement

We Advance Policy

We Show Up

We Make Noise

We Have Fun

We Vote!

“We need to be taught to study rather than believe, to inquire rather than to affirm... in fact whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift. I just tried to create a little chaos.”
— Septima P. Clark