Sentences with phrase «over the parent trigger»

Things are really heating up in the fight over the parent trigger propaganda movie, «Won't Back Down.»

The real controversy over the Parent Trigger comes from those who stand to lose power because of it.

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Over the coming 12 to 18 months, as successful conversions take place at schools using the parent trigger, we are confident the new school leadership will bring significant improvement in student learning and achievement.

The narrative allows the filmmakers to avoid the frank but controversial reality that the parent trigger will most often be used to bring in new operators to take over failing schools.

The biggest oversight of CER's reform comes in its failure to rank states on how they have passed and implemented Parent Trigger laws that allow families to take over failing schools as well as gives them the ability to negotiate with districts on how those schools will be overhauled.

For many of these families, this starts with taking over the traditional district school within their own neighborhoods — and that means being able to utilize Parent Trigger laws that allow them to do so.

The lineup sounds like the cast of a new «The Avengers» movie: a former CNN anchor, a former White House spokesman, and a legal team that won a landmark case in California installing a «parent trigger,» which allows public school parents to take over their schools by majority vote.

In the first of those parent triggers (McKinley Elementary School in Compton, CA, December 2010), the charter school operator that had been poised to take over the school didn't do so; instead, it opened a new charter school a few minutes away.

The current status of the parent trigger at Desert Trails in Adelanto is that Parent Revolution is seeking a charter operator to take over the school, although many parents have said that they don't want the school to become a chparent trigger at Desert Trails in Adelanto is that Parent Revolution is seeking a charter operator to take over the school, although many parents have said that they don't want the school to become a chParent Revolution is seeking a charter operator to take over the school, although many parents have said that they don't want the school to become a charter.

Parents Across America hails defeat of Florida's Parent Trigger bill: A victory of parents over forces that would privatize and profit from our public Parents Across America hails defeat of Florida's Parent Trigger bill: A victory of parents over forces that would privatize and profit from our public parents over forces that would privatize and profit from our public schools

[vii] With the charter school having opened nearby instead of taking over the school, the McKinley Elementary School parent trigger appears to have failed.

The approval, along with the ouster last November of two of the Adelanto Unified School District board members who fought unsuccessfully to stop the families from taking over the school, completes the effort of the families to become the first in the nation to use a Parent Trigger law to take control of a school — and show other families how they can become lead decision - makers in education as they should be.

The law creates a process known as the Parent Trigger, which allows a majority of parents at a low - performing school to sign a petition to trigger one of a narrow set of options — firing all or some of the staff, turning the school over to a charter operator, or closing the Trigger, which allows a majority of parents at a low - performing school to sign a petition to trigger one of a narrow set of options — firing all or some of the staff, turning the school over to a charter operator, or closing the trigger one of a narrow set of options — firing all or some of the staff, turning the school over to a charter operator, or closing the school.

Under the California law, if 51 % of parents in a failing school sign a petition, they can trigger a forcible transformation of the school — either by inviting a charter operator to take over, by forcing certain administrative changes or by shutting it down outright.

From Kingsland's perspective, Parent Trigger laws «will be better at destroying bad schools than creating excellent schools» and «end up decreasing student achievement» because families will be involved in school operations, which is something he thinks they aren't equipped to handle, akin to store customers and hospital patients protesting in front of shopping outlets and taking over hospital management.

Basically, the suspicion that re-segregation is happening via Charter school take - overs, «parent trigger laws,» «school choice,» and «Vouchers,» was confirmed by speaking with other BATs across the country.

A controversial «parent trigger» bill backed by powerful GOP leaders and education reform icon Jeb Bush is headed to the Senate floor for a vote in the final week of the legislative session over the objections of the measure's critics over the way it is being handled.

Families who successfully use Parent Trigger laws to take over schools definitely won't have it all that easy, and will have to pick up their copies of Anthony Bryk's Organizing Schools for Improvement.

** In the few California cases where the Parent Trigger was carried out, the ONLY option that is EVER chosen is handing the school over to a pre-determined for profit charter operator.

The parent trigger measure quickly evolved into a contentious battle over letting parents take over failing schools, with Senate Democratic Leader Nan Rich taking the lead in fighting against it.

Of the two petitions, Parent Trigger submitted the petition asks that Desert Trails be turned over to a for - profit charter developer causing a deep divide among parents.

For example, in Adelanto, Calif., where a group of parents this year became the first to use a parent trigger, a not - for - profit called Parent Revolution, led by former Clinton White House staffer and former California State Board of Education member Ben Austin, has provided the parents with significant support, including an extensive, multi-week curriculum for parents taking over the sparent trigger, a not - for - profit called Parent Revolution, led by former Clinton White House staffer and former California State Board of Education member Ben Austin, has provided the parents with significant support, including an extensive, multi-week curriculum for parents taking over the sParent Revolution, led by former Clinton White House staffer and former California State Board of Education member Ben Austin, has provided the parents with significant support, including an extensive, multi-week curriculum for parents taking over the school.

The law, known as «parent trigger,» passed in California in 2010 and has since been adopted by six other states — Connecticut, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Ohio and Texas — though parents have not yet taken over schools in any of them.

Parent Revolution, a nonprofit dedicated to organizing trigger campaigns, anticipates a surge of interest in other state legislatures as Desert Trails and three other California schools transformed by parent activism reopen over the next Parent Revolution, a nonprofit dedicated to organizing trigger campaigns, anticipates a surge of interest in other state legislatures as Desert Trails and three other California schools transformed by parent activism reopen over the next parent activism reopen over the next month.

«And over the course of those four years, parents have organized and passed this law in California... and passed this law in a number of states across the country to the point where almost 25 percent of American parents live in a state where there is a parent trigger.»

Five years ago, parents were so fed up with the school that they initiated a «parent trigger» to try to take over the school from the district.

Parent Revolution, a nonprofit group that helps parents organize and take over a failing campus, said that some of the district's arguments were similar to arguments made by Anaheim's school district in rebuffing a similar parent trigger, but those were rejected by a judge last sParent Revolution, a nonprofit group that helps parents organize and take over a failing campus, said that some of the district's arguments were similar to arguments made by Anaheim's school district in rebuffing a similar parent trigger, but those were rejected by a judge last sparent trigger, but those were rejected by a judge last summer.

At Weigand Avenue Elementary School in Watts, about 12 miles southeast of 24th Street Elementary, a large group of faculty members is already expressing concerns about another parent trigger petition handed over to the district last week.

As states weigh whether to allow parents to take over struggling schools, reformers are still waiting for a successful trigger.

With a judge's ruling last week in Southern California, a group of parents has become the first in the country to take over their children's failing public school after pulling a «parent trigger.»

If the judge again rules in the parent union's favor at a hearing later this month, parents who signed the trigger petition will vote Oct. 18 on one of two local nonprofit charter operators that submitted bids to take over Desert Trails in the fall of 2013: the Lewis Center for Educational Research, which runs a popular charter school with a focus on science and project - based learning, and LaVerne Elementary Preparatory Academy, which partners with a university and has a focus on classic literature.

Tell that to the school choice activists who have successfully passed voucher measures in more than 13 states, the children who attend the 1,091 new charter schools opened between 2010 and 2013, and families in cities such as Adelanto, Calif., who have taken over failing schools using Parent Trigger laws passed as a result of the competitive grant competition.

The parents at 24th Street Elementary School in Los Angeles Unified will have plenty of choices for an operator to take over their school under the «parent trigger» process they initiated this month.

Parent Power activists such as the Connecticut Parents Union are already gearing up for a fight with the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association over expanding the reach of the state's Parent Trigger law; the fight is particularly tinged by revelations earlier this year of the AFT's presentation on how it unsuccessfully attempted to kibosh the passage of the Parent Power law and how it exacted revenge by ousting Jason Bartlett, the legislator who led the passage of the law and the neutralizing of his former colleague, Gary Holder - Winfield.

Ramirez is a leader of the Desert Trails Parent Union that ran the parent trigger campaign to turn the Adelanto School District's school over to a charter operator after years of low test scores and parent complParent Union that ran the parent trigger campaign to turn the Adelanto School District's school over to a charter operator after years of low test scores and parent complparent trigger campaign to turn the Adelanto School District's school over to a charter operator after years of low test scores and parent complparent complaints.

Can a reformer not be happy about the Parent Trigger being raked over the coals, yet surviving, or that many of Michelle Rhee's reforms are still in place despite leaving her post as D.C. Schools Chancellor after a major push from the American Federation of Teachers?

Mayoral candidates Eric Garcetti and Wendy Greuel will meet with parents on Monday, May 6 at 24th Street Elementary, the first school in LAUSD to be taken over by parents using the parent trigger law.

2010 — Then California Federation of Teachers president Marty Hittleman — a human gaffe machine — described the new Parent Trigger law as a «lynch mob provision,» managing to offend parents, especially African - Americans, all over the state.

Sure, Supt. John Deasy has managed to at least talk the talk on systemically reforming the district (even as he makes rather weak moves as striking a deal with the AFT's City of Angels local on a teacher evaluation plan that does little to actually measure the performance of teachers based on their success with the students they instruct in classrooms) and has even allowed for families at 24th Street Elementary to exercise the district's own Parent Trigger policy and take over the school.

The candidates» positions on education policies and the parent trigger law have evolved over the course of their campaigns.

And Parent Trigger laws can empower poor families to take over and lead the overhaul of failure mills in their own communities (and help them take the next step of taking on other challenges in their own neighborhoods).

«In the absence of a summative rating for a school, it becomes very difficult for families to hold schools accountable for what happens within the walls,» said Seth Litt, executive director of Parent Revolution, an organization that helps parents push for better educational opportunities in their neighborhoods including using the «parent trigger» law to take over low - performing scParent Revolution, an organization that helps parents push for better educational opportunities in their neighborhoods including using the «parent trigger» law to take over low - performing scparent trigger» law to take over low - performing schools.

Parent Trigger is a simple yet transformational law giving parents real power over the educational destiny of their own children.

Parent Trigger changes the dialogue from one in which district bureaucracies, including school boards, administrators, teacher unions and others fight over turf and economic interests to one driven by the question: «What is best for our kids?

After the press conference was over, the pro-Trigger crowd «marched» (aka, drove 10 minutes east) to the Compton Unified headquarters, where Ivan's mother, Marlene Romero — and only she — was allowed to deliver the Compton superintendent the four «lies and intimidation» reports, along with four new parent signatures to add to the 261 already on the Trigger petition.

California Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson plans to essentially re-write the Parent Trigger law, which allows parents to take over a chronically failing school through a petition drive.

Opponents of the Parent Trigger are still smarting over the successful petition drive at Compton Unified School District, which became the first of its kind in the United States.

With Court Win, «Parent Trigger» School Reform Moves to Crucial Vote With a court ruling last week permitting the vote to go forward, parents who signed the petition last winter now have the chance to cast a ballot on the charter school operator they want to take over their neighborhood school next fall.

In short, Parent Trigger laws are a «clever way to trick parents into seizing control of their schools and handing it over to private corporations,» according to Diane Ravitch, an education historian and former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education in the first Bush Administration.

«Transparency» appears to be the new political controversy over California's Parent Trigger law, which allows parents to make changes at a chronically failing public school if they pull off a successful petition drive.