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Posts tagged parent trigger

Educators Vow to Fight Deceptive Parent Trigger La...

Educators Vow to Fight Deceptive Parent Trigger Laws

Last week, 6,000 educators attending the National Education Association’s 2013 Representative Assembly voted to stand with parents against parent trigger laws.  What are parent trigger laws? With a majority of parent support, parents can petition for one of several “turnaround” options to occur: Convert the school into a publicly funded charter school Replace a substantial […]

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The Disempowerment of Public School Paren...

The Disempowerment of Public School Parents

The parent trigger has been relentlessly marketed to parents and policy makers as an “empowerment” that enables parents to conduct a petition campaign in their community to fire their school’s staff and change its governance. This has all the rhetoric of democratic activism – a majority of the parents deciding “what’s best” for the education […]

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