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UPA Founder Jackie Guevara and math teacher Jaz Dhillon created Parent University in 2011. Initially called Parent Workshops until a name change in 2017, it was advertised broadly to families until they felt that the parents of students who were struggling the most were not attending. From then on, Parent University specifically reached out to parents and guardians with students failing three or more...
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Photo 1: Meliame Solomon (7) and Saanvi Saikat (7) work together to decorate their pumpkin with stickers for their group.
Photo 2: Aastika Agrawal (7) and Victoria Dang (7) color their pumpkin with the help of Austin.
Reporting and Photos by Nadia Hines.](https://upaaquila.org/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png)
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