www.leginfo.ca.gov

This is the website for legislative information: your legislators, pending and past bills and California codes.  While at this site click on California Law and follow the directions to see the Education Code to see a copy of that code.  To find out your rights as working parents to take time off work to visit your child's school and participate in schools activities click on Labor Code and enter section 230.8.  Section 51100-02 of the California Education Code is referred to as the "parent's bill of rights".  Click on California Law, then Education Code and then enter section 51100.

www.publiceducation.org

The Public Education Network website offers a rich variety of resources.  Be sure to check out their "engaging the public" link and "action briefs".

www.ncpie.org

This website for the National Coalition for Parent Involvement in Education provides resources on parent involvement.  NCPIE and PEN collaborate in producing "action briefs" for organizers.

www.gseis.ucla.edu

Here you can find "Just Schools" which is a daily and weekly summary of education news from around the state.  "Just Schools" is a project of UCLA/IDEA (the institute for Democracy, Education and Access)

www.sedl.org/connections/

This is the website for the National Center for Families and Communities Connected with the Schools.  Here you can get information on how families and communities can work together to support schools.

www.edsource.org

The website for Ed Source provides information on policy issues impacting California schools.

www.capta.org

This is the website for the California PTA.

http://www.csos.jhu.edu/p2000/

This is Joyce Epstein's website that elaborates on her 6 types of parent involvement (the model advocated by the California Department of Education) and other useful information.

www.calpirc.org

The California Parent Information Resource Center is a good resourse for parent information on schools and links to further information. It also provides information on conferences and workshops.

http://parent.sdsu.edu/

This is the website for the California Parent Center that provides a monthly e-news about California schools and information on the trainings offered by the Parent Center.