Sentences with phrase «trigger petitions filed»

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That extra petition triggered an arcane rule at the Board of Elections: the entire filing would need a cover sheet, which the Donovan team never filed.

The Parents Union tried for nearly three years to make changes at the school and threatened to file a parent trigger petition last year but withdrew it when the district promised to make changes.

The Parents Union that filed the trigger petition said they have asked for proposals for help and looked at Magnolia Charter, which some of the parents said they visited and were impressed with.

The trigger campaign scored a key court victory in July 2012, when a judge decided the district could not allow parents to withdraw their signatures once the petition had been filed.

Kruse says parents or teachers filing parent trigger petitions could negotiate with school leaders to include measures short of reorganizing.

They filed their Parent Trigger petition — signed by almost 70 percent of school parents — on the eve of the national holiday commemorating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as a symbolic gesture of their pursuit of education as the cornerstone of the American Dream.

At LAUSD, nine schools have been threatened with Parent Triggers, and the district made changes to six of them before petitions were filed, according to Rose.

After two years of trying to get changes at the school, and dropping the threatened trigger by the parents at least once, the 20th Street Parents Union filed again last month to take over the school with 57 percent of the families (the parents of 342 students) signing a petition.

Still no word if and when a trigger petition gets filed in LAUSD, but in the meantime a screening of trigger movie «Won't Back Down» was approved by the Democratic National Committee for a preconference event in Charlotte earlier this week, and took place complete with an appearance from Mayor Villaraigosa.

In the most recent trigger attempt, parents in California's Orange County filed a petition in January to force a charter conversion on Palm Lane Elementary School.