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Instead of focusing on dramatically changing the structure of a school, officials should invest in improving teaching, learning, equipment, and community engagement, which happens more often at schools in white, affluent neighborhoods, Brown said.

The parents and "community leaders" are being influenced by the teachers and administrators. Otherwise they would see how stupid they sound.

Let's recap. Your child is in a miserably failing school system and it's never been an issue worthy of parental concern of this level before. Now, your beloved government is coming in to significantly revamp the teachers, principles, administrators and or go to a charter system and NOW its not right? Trying to fix the problem is not fair?

Then they complain that the white schools and districts don't have these problems with lack of parental involvement. Really? If a white person had made that statement, they'd be racists. But somehow the failing schools are "society's failure". That's rich.

Now, I dare you to try and convince me that real parents are the source of the outrage in these lawsuits. Try TEACHERS UNIONS. That fits a little cleaner and makes more sense.

The teachers have the time and energy to go energize the parents to potentially save their jobs but they can't energize the parents to get involved in their own kids educations.