Parent Revolution Throws A Fit

I’ve written many posts about the destructive impact the organization Parent Revolution can have on schools, teachers, students and their families. Their march of destruction continues as they are now threatening to sue the Los Angeles school district if they don’t allow the use of the “parent trigger” (see One Good Thing Comes Out Of […]

Great Parent Trigger Post By Diane Ravitch

I’ve previously posted in my other blog about controversy regarding wording recently used in a blog post about the parent trigger by Diane Ravitch. It appears that some people in public life have remarkably thin skin. Diane has just posted a must-read response to the “uproar.” Check out My Reply to Ben Austin’s Open Letter […]

Parent Trigger “Round-Up”

The Parent Trigger has been in the news a lot over the past few days. Here’s a list of links: Public Schools, Private Agendas: Parent Revolution is from LA Progressive. Parents choose unique school takeover model in ‘trigger’ vote is from the Hechinger Report. The dark side of Parent Trigger is from The Miami Herald.

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 R.I.P.

Today, The Los Angeles Times published an editorial reflecting on the parent trigger’s lack of success, and described Parent Revolution’s retooling effort: Instead of choosing the schools for a possible parent trigger and engineering the petitions, Parent Revolution now leaves it up to parents to determine whether they want to initiate major reforms and what […]

The Worst Parent Engagement Ideas

I’ve posted a lot about good parent engagement/involvement ideas, but sometimes you can learn just as much from looking at bad examples. You can see lots of good ideas at all my parent engagement-related “The Best” lists here. Here are my choices for The Worst Parent Engagement Ideas: Putting Parents in Charge is a condescending […]

Parent Trigger Update

Mother Jones has just published an update on the parent trigger fiasco in Compton headlined “The Millionaires Behind Charter Schools.” The two most scary pieces of information are that the head of Parent Revolution says he doesn’t have any regrets about how they have handled their “organizing” process there, and that they plan fifteen more […]

Parent Trigger Parody

Edtweak, which periodically publishes school reform-related parodies, recently published a piece on the “parent trigger.” Here it is: Teachers Face California’s Student Trigger Law Beginning next month, any child in a failing classroom will be able to remove her teacher, simply by collecting signatures from 50% of the class’s students. The law is the brainchild […]