Adelanto Parent Trigger Saga Continues

I’ve written a lot about the saga of the parent trigger campaign in Adelanto, California. Here’s the latest from Education Week (it has plenty of details beyond these two first paragraphs): A California school board has approved a plan to restructure a school at the center of a closely watched “parent-trigger” dispute, but it’s not […]

Parent Trigger Petition Approved

The Adelanto (CA) School District’s Board of Trustees approved a proposed charter replacing a school as a result of a parent trigger petition on Tuesday. You can read about it in the local paper and a more complete piece at The Hechinger Report. Only 53 of the original 466 parent petitioners voted for the charter […]

Southern California Parent Trigger Saga

I’ve previously posted about the rejection by the Adelanto School Board of a parent trigger petition because 100 parents said they were tricked into signing them. A judge ruled today that parents can’t rescind their signatures, and that the parent trigger effort can go forward. The district is expected to appeal, but hasn’t made a […]

“Parent Trigger Divides Families” Says L.A. Times

The Los Angeles Times, which certainly can’t be described as an opponent of the so-called Parent Trigger, has just published an article headlined “‘Parent trigger’ campaign divides families at troubled Adelanto elementary school.” After having failed at their first effort in Compton (and dividing the school in the process), the Parent Revolution is at it […]

Parent Trigger News

I still feel very confident in saying that the “parent trigger” is pretty much dead in terms of having any kind of real influence in the education policy debate, but it does seem to appear to have some dying breathes left. You can read about them here: Adelanto school is targeted in second test of […]