FATE Schools

Get Involved

This Fight Needs You.

FATE is built by families, for families. Every parent who joins, every community member who shows up, every advocate who speaks out makes us stronger. Here's how you can be part of the work.

How to Help

Six Ways to Get Involved

Join FATE

Become a FATE member and connect with families across your community who are fighting for accountability, transparency, and equity in public education.

FATE membership is free and open to all families, educators, advocates, and community members who share our values. As a member, you'll receive updates on issues and events, opportunities to participate in advocacy campaigns, and connection to a growing network of families who refuse to be ignored.

Become a Member

Attend a Town Hall

Show up to a FATE town hall, workshop, or listening session in your community. Your presence matters — and your story can change things.

FATE events are free, open to all, and designed to turn individual frustration into collective power. Town halls give families a space to share experiences, learn their rights, and organize together. Find an event near you or ask us to bring one to your community.

Find an Event

Share Your Story

Your experience with the school system is evidence. When families share what happened to them, it helps FATE identify patterns, build cases, and demand systemic change.

Too many families have been told their experience is an isolated incident. It isn't. When you share your story with FATE, you help us connect the dots — identifying patterns of failure, building the record of systemic problems, and amplifying the voices that institutions try to silence.

Share Your Story

Start a Chapter

Bring FATE to your school district. Local chapters are the engine of our organizing — connecting families in the same district and building sustained community power.

FATE chapters organize at the school district level, where the decisions that affect your children are actually made. Starting a chapter means building a network of families in your district, attending school board meetings together, and creating a sustained presence that institutions can't ignore.

Start a Chapter

Volunteer

FATE runs on the energy of volunteers. Whether you can give an hour a month or a day a week, there's meaningful work you can do to support families in your community.

Volunteers help FATE with event support, community outreach, translation and interpretation, social media, research, and more. We match volunteers with opportunities that fit their skills, availability, and interests. No experience required — just commitment to the cause.

Volunteer with FATE

Donate

FATE's work is funded by people who believe families deserve better. Your donation supports town halls, workshops, advocacy campaigns, and the families who need us most.

Every dollar donated to FATE goes directly to supporting families and funding advocacy work. We keep our overhead low and our impact high. Your contribution — whatever the amount — helps us show up for families who have nowhere else to turn.

Donate to FATE

Membership

Join FATE Today

Membership is free. Fill out the form below to connect with FATE and start receiving updates, event invitations, and opportunities to get involved.

How would you like to get involved? (select all that apply)

Your information will only be used to communicate with you about FATE activities. We will never sell or share your data.

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Volunteer Opportunities

Tell us about yourself and how you'd like to help. We'll match you with opportunities that fit your skills and availability.

Volunteers working together in the community
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FATE Schools Parent Town Hall Registration

Register below to attend an upcoming FATE Town Hall in your community. Town halls are free and open to all families, educators, and advocates.

Contact Information

Preferred Method of Contact

About You

Which best describes you? (select all that apply)

Event Details

How do you plan to participate?

Language & Accessibility

Do you need language interpretation to participate?

FATE currently has interpretation assistance available in Spanish and Vietnamese. If you need another language, please let us know. We cannot guarantee interpretation in other languages, but we will try to identify available resources.

Do you need another accessibility accommodation to participate?

Your Connection to Special Education

Do you currently have a child attending this school district?
Does your child currently have an IEP?
Does your child currently have a Section 504 Plan?
What grade level is your child currently in?
How long has your family been involved with this school district?
Have you participated in any of the following? (select all that apply)
Have you ever spoken publicly at a School Board meeting about an educational concern?

Your Family's Experience

Which of the following areas have you or your child experienced challenges with? (select all that apply)

Your Special Education Experience

Overall, how would you describe your experience with your school district's Special Education program?
Do you feel your concerns are meaningfully heard during the IEP process?
Do you feel you are treated as an equal member of your child's IEP team?
Do you feel comfortable disagreeing with your child's school or IEP team?
Have you ever felt pressured to agree to something during an IEP meeting?
Have you ever felt discouraged from requesting an assessment, service, accommodation, placement, or other support for your child?
Have you ever felt that you needed an advocate or attorney before your concerns would be taken seriously?
Have you experienced a problem that you believe may also be affecting other students or families in your school or district?
Have you previously raised any of these concerns with your school or school district?
Would you like to use this intake form to register for our upcoming Town Hall meeting and apply for FATE membership?
Would you like to subscribe to our upcoming events and future newsletters?

Required fields are marked with an asterisk (*). Your information will be used to coordinate your participation in FATE events and to help FATE better understand the experiences and concerns of families in our communities.

Every family that joins makes FATE stronger.

We are building the community power that public education has been designed to prevent. Join us.

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