After Los Angeles Unified School District board members approved a Parent Trigger earlier this week, mayoral candidates Eric Garcetti and Wendy Greuel refused to comment on the historic vote, which allows parents to take over a chronically
failing elementary school in West Adams.
At one point, as she waits for tardy D.C. city council member Marion Barry outside
a failing elementary school, she drifts across the street to chat with residents.
A parent who has a child trapped in
a failing elementary school — in a redlined neighborhood devoid of quality options — may not be eligible to apply to a magnet school that has criteria for selection.
If the student attended
a failing elementary school, the odds of them getting the education necessary to compete are unlikely.
It's difficult to read your assertion that students attending
a failing elementary school have little chance of getting into a top high school.
As principal, he rallied his team to transform
a failing elementary school into a B - rated school in just one year.
LOS ANGELES — The effort to have parents drive school reform received a substantial boost with a court ordering a San Bernardino County school district to accept a parent petition demanding changes at
a failing elementary school.
LA Unified has rejected a parent petition to take over
a failing elementary school in South Central Los Angeles, reversing district policy and essentially asserting that no California school qualifies under the state «parent trigger» law.
The lack of data also played a notable role in the drama over 20th Street Elementary School, when LA Unified rejected a parent petition to take over
the failing elementary school in South Central Los Angeles, asserting that no California school qualifies as failing under the state «parent trigger» law precisely because data no longer exist, meaning no school could be failing.
ADELANTO — One of the High Desert parents who used a state law to wrest control of
their failing elementary school away from school district hands is alleging that the group that helped organize the effort offered to pay parents to promote the «parent trigger» movement nationwide.