Sentences with phrase «schools and parent trigger»

PR (an apt acronym) is a California group funded by Gates, Walton and the usual gang to promote charter schools and the parent trigger.

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But public outcry from consumers, parents and school district officials, triggered by YouTube videos and online petitions, drove industry and government to respond.

Judy Stigger, adoptive mom and adoption therapist, and Carmen Knight, teacher and internationally adopted person will share professional advice and personal experiences to help parents respond when projects trigger questions, understand their child's concerns and gain insight into managing school work battles.

Although it may be difficult for parents to decipher a real headache from a child just wanting to hold onto summer a little longer and avoid going back to school, there is a variety of other common triggers including poor hydration and prolonged screen time that could contribute to a child's discomfort.

What these detractors overlook is ongoing work with the California State Board of Education to create a regulatory framework around the parent trigger process that removes unwarranted barriers and codifies the legal steps leading to the successful transformation of a failing school.

The proposed changes are similar to the «parent trigger law» in the United States, and would require their regional school commissioner (RSC) to give a formal response to parents regarding complaints against a school.

Parent Revolution has launched parent trigger campaigns in two California schools: McKinley Elementary in Compton and Desert Trails Elementary in AdeParent Revolution has launched parent trigger campaigns in two California schools: McKinley Elementary in Compton and Desert Trails Elementary in Adeparent trigger campaigns in two California schools: McKinley Elementary in Compton and Desert Trails Elementary in Adelanto.

In January 2013, more than 150 parents and children from the 24th Street Elementary School in Los Angeles presented their parent trigger petition to the superintendent of the LAUSD.

(As this article goes to press, Parent Revolution has helped parents pull the trigger in a third school, 24th Street Elementary in the Los Angeles Unified School District, and a fourth campaign is undeschool, 24th Street Elementary in the Los Angeles Unified School District, and a fourth campaign is undeSchool District, and a fourth campaign is underway.)

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 film profiles Parent Trigger, Homeschooling, Inter-District choice, Charter Schools, Vouchers, Online Learning and Private Scholarships.

Manno focuses on three of these nonprofit organizations that have had helped to lift charter school caps, implement «parent trigger» policies, and reform teacher effectiveness provisions.

As passed in California, Texas, and Mississippi, trigger laws allow parents to petition to convert a school to a charter school, close the school, or replace school leadership.

The big problem, though, is the film's implicit suggestion that the parent trigger is a solution in and of itself; if parents and good - hearted teachers can only wrest control away from the bureaucracy and the unions, the schools will improve.

Such public threats trigger a media frenzy, alarm employees and parent advocates, and exacerbate, yet again, the prevailing public perception that schools are headed for fiscally stringent times.

• As many as twenty states are considering «parent trigger» legislation, which closes failing schools upon a majority vote of parents and replaces the staff, charters the school for private management, or allows the students to attend private or other public schools.

Even though the parent trigger appears more acceptable than school closings to policymakers, since it is the parents who decide about the school which their children attend, why has so little numerical progress been made, and how can it be expanded?

Information about local district rankings increases public support for school choice programs, including charter schools, parent trigger mechanisms, and, especially, school vouchers for all students.

Public assessments of local schools would shift in a more skeptical direction; support for universal voucher initiatives, charter schools, and the parent trigger would increase; limits to teacher tenure would gain greater public support; and both teachers unions and demands for increases in teacher salaries would confront greater public skepticism.

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.

Such public threats trigger a media frenzy, alarm employees and parent advocates, and fuel the public perception that schools are in financial risk.

As passed in California, Texas, and Mississippi, the Trigger Act allows parents to petition to convert a school to a charter school, close the school, or replace school leadership.

Empower parents to transform their schools: Enable a majority of parents in a failing school to take charge and transform it, through «parent trigger» laws and regulations.

In both of those two parent trigger campaigns, many parents at the targeted schools said they did not want their schools to become charter schools, and a number attempted to rescind their signatures from the petitions.

One hundred eighty - seven schools have school governance councils in place, the first condition required for families in the Nutmeg State to use the Parent Trigger and launch school takeovers.

It was Gwen Samuel, a mother from Connecticut bereft of shiny public policy credentials, who led the passage of the nation's second Parent Trigger law and has spurred the current efforts at reforming teacher quality and expanding school choice happening in the Nutmeg State.

Three teachers also outlined their efforts to fight off campaigns to overhaul their elementary schools — Miramonte, 93rd Street and 68th Street — under the parent trigger law, which allows parents to petition for changes at low - performing campuses.

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Ask other parents to join you in signing a petition to close down these schools and restart them using the Parent Trigger Law!

The Won't Back Down movie and the 8/17 Teacher Rocks concert are propaganda for the parent trigger law created by charter school operators and promoted by ALEC.

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

California's Parent Trigger law was promoted by the organization Parent Revolution, which was founded by charter school operators and backed financially by venture philanthropists.

Here's what the Los Angeles Weekly reported about the Compton parent trigger (Dec. 9, 2010): Parent Revolution decided to focus on McKinley Elementary School and approach parents there after researching the worst school districts in Califparent trigger (Dec. 9, 2010): Parent Revolution decided to focus on McKinley Elementary School and approach parents there after researching the worst school districts in CalifParent Revolution decided to focus on McKinley Elementary School and approach parents there after researching the worst school districts in CalifSchool and approach parents there after researching the worst school districts in Califschool districts in California.

The potential outcome of a Parent Trigger drive — disrupting and dismantling schools — is likely to harm vulnerable students and communities in which the local public school is often a key stabilizing force.

LA Unified Superintendent John Deasy said in an interview that the metrics used by LA Unified and the other districts granted the waiver still give parents the right to use the Parent Trigger law, so long as a school has been deemed in need of improvement for two consecutive years, ending with the 2014 - 2015 school year.

A model bill for the «Parent Trigger Act» and much of school choice and privatization legislation is designed and promoted by the American Legislative Exchange Council or ALEC, which coordinates with the State Policy Network and has become notorious for promoting «stand your ground» legislation and propagating climate change denial.

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 shouSchool 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 shouschool, 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 shouschool — and show other families how they can become lead decision - makers in education as they should be.

[vi] The Los Angeles Weekly live blogging, Dec. 14, 2010: «We're reporting live from the [Compton Unified School District] board meeting, packed with press and hundreds of angry parents — many of whom say they were tricked into signing the Parent Trigger petition without understanding its gravity.

More importantly, the most - successful efforts to expand school choice (including Virginia Walden Ford's work in Washington, D.C., Steve Barr's work with Latino communities in Los Angeles, and Parent Revolution's Parent Trigger efforts), have been ones led by poor and minority communities who explicitly made the case for helping their own children escape failure mills that damaged their families for generations.

Finally, we see the parent trigger as a distraction from the real work our schools require — implementing proven, common - sense strategies for parent involvement and meaningful education reform.

The elimination of these deductions, along with new incentives for wealthier parents to consider private schools, could be detrimental to the public schooling system as it could trigger the flight of wealth and upper - middle class families.

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While the candidate had previously said she was in favor of the parent trigger process and School Board President Monica Garcia, Tuesday's speech exhibited much stronger language than anything we saw in the Primary.

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.

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 Improschools definitely won't have it all that easy, and will have to pick up their copies of Anthony Bryk's Organizing Schools for ImproSchools for Improvement.

Action: 51 % of the parents in a «struggling» traditional public school * sign a petition, the «Parent Trigger» and determine the fate of the school for everyone else's child.Possible results:

To state the association's opposition to «parent trigger laws» and to offer recommendations to federal, state, district, and school leaders about how to ensure meaningful parent and family engagement in school reform efforts for the success of all students.