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Two parent leaders tell us in their own words what attending the 2024 Equity Now Conference in NYC meant to them. Read more

October 15, 2020: PLTI Candidates Forum on Education! See the Video

August 24, 2020: PLTI Delivers Strong Results for Another Cohort of Parent Leaders! See the PDF

August 10, 2020: Congrats to Karen Elam, PLTI Alum, for her appointment to the Commission on Racial and Structural Equity, the body created by Rochester and Monroe County to study the local impact of structural and institutional racism, Democrat & Chronicle

July 2, 2020: Congrats to PLTI Alum David Long and Matt Metras. They were voted in as the new Board of Education President and Vice President for the West Irondequoit School Board, West Irondequoit

May 19, 2020: School Choice, Rochester Beacon opinion by PLTI Alum Maria Cruz, Rochester Beacon

May 4, 2020: Inclusive Leadership Needed during community recovery, opinion by Deb Hanmer, Democrat & Chronicle

April 24, 2020: Alum Lydia Rivera’s work with Blocks in Bloom to improve her neighborhood, Democrat & Chronicle

May 4, 2020: Community Recovery Requires Inclusive Leadership, Democrat & Chronicle

April 24, 2020: Alum Lydia Rivera’s work with Blocks in Bloom to improve her neighborhood, Democrat & Chronicle

April 20, 2020: Learning from the Coronavirus crisis, Rochester Beacon opinion by PLTI Alum Erika Rosenberg, Rochester Beacon

February 7, 2020: Comprehensive education reform requires parent leadership, Rochester Business Journal opinion by Deborah Hanmer, Rochester Business Journal

December 31, 2019: Solution to RCSD budget crisis requires new set of architects, Democrat & Chronicle

April 7, 2017: PLTI alum Mary Lupien (2016 Cohort) about her run for City Council, WXXI Connections

May 27, 2016: Kendra Smallwood (2015 Cohort) about the Crisis Nursery on WXXI Connections (Helping Kids Avoid Abuse and Homelessness)

May 24, 2016: Mayor Warren Announces New Spray Waterpark for Kids, Spectrum News

March 2, 2016: Program is shaping chefs and raising restauranteurs, City Paper

February 27, 2017: Aaron Metras (2016 Cohort), Student Run Eatery serves up Carribean fare in village gate, Democrat & Chronicle

December 6, 2016: Leadership Programs Turns Parents Into Advocates, Democrat & Chronicle

October 15, 2015: After cousin’s shooting, lawmaker calls for gun rules, Democrat & Chronicle

January 10, 2015: School and Home are Symbiotic, Op Ed, Democrat & Chronicle

October 21, 2013: Why City School Vote Matters, Democrat & Chronicle

May 15, 2013: Training Aims to Help Parents Improve Child’s Lives, El Mensajero

May 14, 2013: PLTI inspires change through leadership, Brighton-Pittsford Post

April 20, 2013: Greece parents graduate from leadership program, Greece Post

April 20, 2012: Leadership Training Programs Aims to Teach Parents How to Become Advocates, WXXI

April 19, 2012: Parent leadership initiative brings together parents from city, six area towns, Irondequoit Post PLTI Alumna Rosa Curtis Wins $50,000 Grant for Late-Night Child Care
The Rochester Monroe Anti-Poverty Initiative recently awarded a $50,000 grant to Cohort 5 alumna Rosa Curtis’s proposal to create a late-night and overnight child care center in downtown Rochester. The award will fund remodeling a space, buying play materials, and installing child-safe furniture. Having a place parents can bring their kids so they can work, Rosa says, is an incredibly important way to mitigate poverty.