“To give their children a better education, parents launch new school”

To give their children a better education, parents launch new school is the headline of an article in the LA Times.

Here’s an excerpt:

“We did it. We had an opportunity to put our word in and say, ‘You know what, we want something better for our students,'” Melendrez said.

It was a unique showing of parent power. The group had ambitions beyond the typical PTA and used a less confrontational route to asserting control over the education of their children. In recent years, parents at several underperforming public schools have tried to force dramatic changes in management using the state’s parent trigger law. If at least half of the school’s parents agree, the law gives them the power to demand changes in staff and curriculum, close the school or convert to an independent charter.

Here, however, parents were happy with what they had and fearful of what came next. It was a preemptive move to keep their students out of low-achieving high schools, parents said.

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