Parent “Trigger” Is Parent “Involvement” At Its Worst
I’ve written often about the sham that is the California “parent trigger” law that allows an unclear number of parents in a school’s general area to “trigger” that school’s takeover by a charter school operator (not-so-coincidentally, the push for the law was led by a group connected to a charter school company).
Sadly, we can now see how it will be used by “school reformers” as they try it for the first time on a school in Compton (see Parents hope to force sweeping changes at Compton school).
Ben Austin, the head of the group pushing for the takeover, demonstrated a fair amount of self-righteous over-
