Showing Our Work
Every meeting I took, every records request I filed, and every fee the district charged, from PAACT's launch on April 1 to today. Katherine Brooks sat in most of these meetings with me.
I am a mom of three boys. Two of them play two travel sports each. That is three school drop-off times, three school pick-up times, and a calendar that would hold its own against any parent's. I volunteer at school and I served as a PTA vice president. I have never used my schedule as a reason not to be involved in my kids' education, and I made time for every date on this line.
*This line shows meetings, requests and fees only. It does not show the hours spent researching, writing newsletters, building meeting agendas and presentations, interpreting data, updating the website, and following patterns in our district.
Education is Impossible Without High Standards.
Our Mission:
PAACT (Parents Allied for Accountability, Conduct, and Transparency) is a coalition of families dedicated to building a stronger culture of excellence across Birmingham Public Schools.
Birmingham Public Schools' own strategic plan calls for genuine partnership with families and the community. We believe that vision is worth pursuing — and that there is real distance between where the district says it wants to go and the experience families are actually having. PAACT exists to help close that gap.
We started with concerns about discipline, behavior, and teacher support — because when those break down, learning does too. Over time we've come to understand that those concerns connect to something larger: how the district communicates with families, how it makes decisions about spending and staffing, and whether the transparency the district promises families is actually showing up in practice.
We are not here as adversaries. We are here as exactly what the district's own mission describes — an engaged community, showing up. Our goal is honest conversation, accurate information, and the kind of genuine partnership between families, educators, and district leadership that makes great schools possible.
