Parent power has been put forward by Rogers as a viable option towards addressing the problem of structural inadequacy and inequality, which were not solved by the NCLB Act. Rather than capitalizing or only applying individual efforts, parents possessed the power to mobilize schools to improve conditions and resources. Individual parents acting individually had only the power to learn the performance of their children and only participate in engaging educators on an individual level. As a group, poor parents could discuss, examine, and take action to change structures sustaining unequal learning opportunities. In addition, parents could also collaborate with other organizations to take collective actions.
Parents were supposed to utilize data on the performance of the children, school conditions, and other structural issues affecting schools. Parents, through public deliberation about the causes of the problem affecting schools, could gain more force-to-force change, and this could also result in more transparency of the schools. The focus directs public attention or parental involvement as a group to the deliberations about, analysis, and resolutions of problems involved in policies formulated on public learning. This has been tried out by the Parent-U-Turn as a group involved in South Gate and Lynwood and therefore can work elsewhere.