A Southern California school district found– again — that a Parent Revolution petition to initiate the parent trigger came up short. Here’s a Storify from the meeting: [View the story “Parent Trigger Fails Yet Again In California” on Storify]
Hopes and Fears for Parent Trigger Laws is a New York Times “Room For Debate” feature appearing today. You might also be interested in The Best Resources For Learning Why The Parent Trigger Isn’t Good For Parents, Kids Or Schools.
I’ve previously posted about the parent trigger proposal in the Florida legislature. Happily, the trigger continues its descent into irrelevancy since the Florida bill was defeated today. Here are a few articles about its defeat: Why Florida’s parent trigger bill failed in state Senate is by Valerie Strauss at The Washington Post. Tense fight over […]
Parent trigger: School tests California law that allows takeover via petition is an article in today’s Washington Post. You might also be interested in The Best Resources For Learning Why The Parent Trigger Isn’t Good For Parents, Kids Or Schools.
Here are three very interesting articles on the parent trigger debate in Florida: Parent trigger bill faces uncertain future is from The Tampa Bay Times. Education overhaul: ‘Parent trigger’ legislation clears hurdle, ready for Senate vote is from The Sun Sentinel. Fla. Senate panel clears parental ‘trigger’ bill is from The Herald Tribune.
California’s flawed ‘parent trigger’ is a fairly decent editorial from The Los Angeles Times. Even though the best parent trigger is no parent trigger at all, if it’s going to be kept The Times’ suggestions could only help.
A local newspaper tweeted tonight’s School Board Meeting in Southern California where the parent trigger petition was rejected. You can learn more about the parent trigger at The Best Resources For Learning Why The Parent Trigger Isn’t Good For Parents, Kids Or Schools. [View the story “Parent Trigger Fails (Again) In California” on Storify]
The same day the Los Angeles Times details the disaster of the parent trigger, The New York Times runs an article about an upcoming Hollywood movie about….the parent trigger. Financed and produced by the same people who did “Waiting For Superman,” the movie takes place in Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania doesn’t have such a law). One major […]
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’ Laws Gain Traction, But Slowly is the headline of an article in Education Week that gives a national overview of what’s happening with the parent trigger. You might also be interested in The Best Resources For Learning Why The Parent Trigger Isn’t Good For Parents, Kids Or Schools.
Parent trigger not on the top of parent-involvement expert’s list of best practices is the headline of a column at the Tampa Bay newspaper in Florida (where an attempt is being made to pass a trigger law). It quotes parent involvement researcher Joyce Epstein, who says: “That would not be first on our list of […]
New year brings new expectations for “parent trigger” law is a new article from Ed Source. It’s worth a look….
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 […]
Even though Parent Revolution and the parent trigger are both on their last legs, they can still do some damage to students, parents and schools. Caroline Grannan writes about what is happening in Pasadena in the article “Triggering suspicion.”
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 Trouble With the Parent Trigger is a post by Diane Ravitch at Education Week. The comments are pretty interesting, too.
When 51% Isn’t Needed to Pull a Trigger is a commentary by Los Angelest teacher Martha Infante. Her school is being targeted by Parent Revolution as a potential place for use of the parent trigger.
Trigger Laws: Does Signing a Petition Give Parents a Voice? is an excellent article in the most recent issue of Rethinking Schools. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning Why The Parent Trigger Isn’t Good For Parents, Kids Or Schools.
Today, The New York Times published an article detailing the failure of the parent trigger law. In fact, it even quotes the law’s creator giving an analysis of the causes behind its failure that pretty much echo the critiques that opponents of the law (see The Best Resources For Learning Why The Parent Trigger Isn’t […]
The Parent Trigger: A Positive Step or a Distraction for Improving Our Public Schools? is a point/counterpoint four-day discussion being published at a site called Public Sector Inc. It still has two more days to go, so it might be worth checking out….