‘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 […]
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.
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….
This week there have been two articles/posts published sharing critiques of the parent trigger law. Once came from Washington Post reporter Jay Mathews, who wrote Why parents can’t save schools. The other piece was in Thoughts On Public Education and shared quotes from a number trigger critics and advocates. Several perspectives in that article and […]
Parent trigger rules are, with a nod to Colbert, ‘reforminess’ is a good take on the recently-approved California regulations for the Parent Trigger. It’s written by Gary Ravani, vice president of the California Federation of Teachers.
Here are two more articles providing more information about yesterday’s approval of California parent trigger regulations b the State Board of Education: New parent trigger regs approved is from Thoughts on Public Education. Regulations approved for schools’ ‘Parent Trigger’ law is from The Los Angeles Times.
Even though I think it’s a pretty safe bet that the idea of a “parent trigger” law is rapidly dying, it looks like the California State Board of Education may soon approve final regulations governing the process. You can read about it at Final (maybe) Trigger regs up for vote .
Legislative Momentum Stalls for ‘Parent Trigger’ Proposals is the headline in an article today at Education Week. Here’s an excerpt: The momentum behind “parent-trigger” proposals, one of the hottest ideas for overhauling struggling schools, has slowed in statehouses amid political opposition and vexing questions about how those bold plans should be implemented at the local […]
Gloria Romero, the former California State Senator who attacked the PTA and compared schools to batterers, was warned by the state ethics agency for violating lobbying restrictions in her advocacy for the parent trigger. You can read about it in the Los Angeles Times: Former state Sen. Gloria Romero warned about lobbying.
As regular readers know, I’m definitely not a fan of the so-called “parent trigger” law (you might want to read The Best Resources For Learning Why The Parent Trigger Isn’t Good For Parents, Kids Or Schools). Today, there were lots of news articles about the status of the parent trigger in various areas. Here is […]
“Another Kind Of Parent Trigger?” is the question asked by parent organizer Leonie Haimson in a tweet she sent out about parents organizing to kick-out a for-profit charter operator of their school and take it over themselves. You can check-out two pieces from The San Francisco Weekly about what happened: VIDEO: San Francisco’s Most Controversial […]
Examining California’s Parent Trigger Law is a new segment from NPR. Here is its description: California’s new “parent trigger” law allows parents with children at a troubled public school to “trigger” one of four school intervention models simply by signing a petition. Parents in Compton have done that already. Gloria Romero, the former California state […]
Could teachers veto charter option? Dispute over wording of Parent Trigger regulations is an update by John Fensterwald on yesterday’s meeting on the Parent Trigger Law at the California State Board of Education. The saga continues…
John Fensterwald, as usual, does a good job updating the status of the Parent Trigger here in California in his post, Parent Trigger, Version 4 and counting. This Thursday, the California State Board of Education will spend most of the day reviewing potential new regulations on the trigger law.
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 […]