Sentences with phrase «triggered by a petition»

Around 35 MPs out of 650 were present for the debate, which was triggered by a petition of more than half a million people.

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The bill required 66.6 percent of voters to sign a petition to trigger a recall by - election.

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

A minimum of ten parents can trigger a petition but this must be backed by 20 per cent of affected parents before a full ballot can go ahead.

The issues that triggered the investigative powers of CHRAJ in the preliminary investigation were contained in petitions by three complainants, the National Youth League of the Convention People's Party (CPP), the Progressive People's Party (PPP) and Nana Adofo Ofori.

By Jo - Anna K. Burnett A petition to release Shaker Aamer, the last Briton held in Guantanamo, has reached more than 100,000 signatures, potentially triggering a parliamentary debate.

In areas where grammar schools were the norm, the 1998 regulations made under the Act provided for ballots to be triggered by 20 per cent of parents at all schools signing a petition, while in areas where grammar schools were less common, only parents of children at «feeder schools» would be allowed to vote.

Approved by the village board last month, the dissolution will automatically take effect unless a petition by a local resident to trigger a permissive referendum garners enough signatures by July 20.

Such a right would allow a vociferous minority to trigger a by - election for what might simply be political advantage; the threat of a recall petition could equally could be used to intimidate MPs who did not follow the party line.

The campaigns in McKinley and Desert Trails were characterized predominantly by lawsuits that revolved, first, around the parent signatures on the trigger petitions.

This past October, a superior court judge concluded a yearlong legal battle, confirming that parents have the right under the parent trigger law to transform their school, while ordering the school district to abide by the parents» petition.

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.

Doubt has also been cast on a petition allegedly signed by more than 1,200 supporters of the parent trigger proposal.

Before the parent trigger petition, 24th Street Elementary was already slated to undergo a reform plan developed by the principal with input from some teachers and parents as part of the district's Public School Choice program.

They were part of a parent union driving a petition process to force reforms by invoking the state's Parent Empowerment Act of 2010, known as the parent trigger.

stipulates that if 50 percent +1 of the parents of children in a failing school sign a petition, it can «trigger» a change in the governance of that school either by getting rid of some teachers, firing the principal, shutting the school down or turning it into a charter school.

Passed in 2010, the California law enables parents whose children attend a persistently failing school to «trigger» reforms, including replacing staff or turning the school into a charter, by presenting their school district with a petition containing at least 51 percent of their signatures.

The law stipulates that if 50 percent +1 of the parents of children in a failing school sign a petition, it can «trigger» a change in the governance of that school either by getting rid of some teachers, firing the principal, shutting the school down or turning it into a charter school.

Palm Lane parents, disheartened by the school's abysmal academic record [1] and the governing district's resistance to change, sought relief by attempting to exercise the Parent Trigger Law, an option that enables them to petition the school district to transform the failing institution into a newly created public charter school.

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.

Parents seeking the first use of the state's controversial parent trigger» school restructuring law vowed Wednesday to carry on their fight despite a move by Compton school officials to disqualify their petitions.

The proposals have varied from state to state, but they generally allow parents at any failing school, defined by standardized testing, to sign a petition to radically transform the school using any of four «triggers.»

However, for a good analysis of why, in practice, parent trigger petitions are most likely to aim for charter schools, see Thoughts on Public Education, by John Fensterwald.

The Lusher Charter School governing board voted 6 - 5 on Saturday morning against recognizing a petition for collective bargaining by the newly - formed United Teachers of Lusher, likely triggering a schoolwide election on the question in the coming weeks.

And after the Trigger's official regulations are finally solidified by the California Board of Education (hopefully without a proposed clause that would allow teachers to veto a parent petition, turning the whole «empowerment» concept on its head), little kinks like a date box won't be the deciding factors in failing - school takeovers.

The case is seen as an important test of California's so - called «parent trigger» law, which allows parents to force reforms at low performing schools through a petition signed by 50 percent of parents.

Update, February 22:» «Parent Trigger» Petition Rejected by Adelanto School District After Teacher - Backed Rescission Campaign.»

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.

And based on everything we know about who ran the rescission drive and how (see» «Parent Trigger» Petition Rejected by Adelanto School District After Teacher - Backed Rescission Campaign»), that's exactly what happened here.

The «parent union,» as they call themselves, guided by controversial ed - reform org Parent Revolution, have been going door to door, asking moms and dads to sign a petition called the «Parent Trigger»...

The parents and their lawyers have found that some of the rescission petitions were never signed, and some were signed by parents who weren't part of the Trigger in the first place.

Under a radical new California law, if over 50 percent of parents at any chronically failing school (as designated by the state) sign a Trigger petition, they are allowed to take over the school, and try to shake it from the shackles that have kept it among California's worst.

While the film doesn't mention the «Parent trigger» law by name, the ads describe the film as being «inspired by actual events» and depict parents signing a petition to take over a struggling school.

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.

@el, in the first parent trigger, at McKinley Elementary in Compton, the petition drive organized and carried out by Parent Revolution was described as «stealth.»