PIQE Highlights

• PIQE celebrated its 19th anniversary on October 22, 2006.
• PIQE has graduated more than 375,000 parents from the basic nine-week program.
• Over 20,000 parents have participated in the follow-up component.
• PIQE programs have impacted over 1 million children.
• PIQE expanded its program operations in 1991 and currently has 9 regional offices serving 20 counties throughout California.
• PIQE has worked in more than 1,500 schools in 155 different school districts in California.
• In 2001, PIQE collaborated with the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) to develop and implement a six-hour teacher workshop on parent involvement (700 teachers have participated in these workshops).
• Since 1990, in partnership with World Vision: PIQE has raised over $15 million dollars from individuals, corporations, foundations and schools.
• In partnership with NCLR, PIQE’s program is being incubated in Dallas, Texas, Montana, and Phoenix, Arizona.
• PIQE has received an EXCELLENT RATING as the State GEAR-UP parent component while serving 200 middle schools in California over the past five years.
• In 2002-03, funded by the Eisenhower Foundation, PIQE designed and implemented a “Teacher” Master’s level (3-unit) semester course on “Parent Involvement.” It has been piloted in ten schools in San Diego County and 92 teachers have completed the course. The teacher evaluations have been EXCELLENT!
• In 2003, funded by the Prop. 10 Commission, PIQE designed and implemented a parent curriculum in Santa Clara County for families with children whose ages are between 0-5.
• In 2002-03, PIQE accepted the challenge by Chancellor Tony Alvarado, SDUSD to host a year long parent involvement program at San Diego High School.  During the school year, PIQE held three 9 week series of parent involvement classes, two 6 hour teacher workshops on Saturdays and numerous empowerment sessions with students.  PIQE contracted with a African-American parent advocate who focused on working with African-American students and parents.
• In 2005, PIQE entered into a historic compact with the California State Univeristy Chancellor Charles Reed.  He pledged $25,000 per campus to give each President an incentive to begin a partnership.  The agreement also provides all the children of PIQE graduates a “College ID” admitting them to their local CSU, provided they meet all the admission requirements when they graduate from high school.

PIQE’S VISION & GOALS

• To expand to 23 offices in California in order to reach 90% of all families with children in the schools.
• To expand the teacher workshop on parent involvement throughout the State of California.
• To expand its work throughout the state with families who have children between the ages of 0-5.
• To expand its Parent Involvement Program and the teacher workshops nationwide.

“The social, political and economic progress of California and the nation depends on the quality of education provided to all its students.”

David Valladolid
President & CEO
Parent Institute for Quality Education

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