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Friday, December 17, 2010

This Week In Education: Reform: Nine Reasons "Everyone" Hates The Parent Trigger

This Week In Education: Reform: Nine Reasons "Everyone" Hates The Parent Trigger

Reform: Nine Reasons "Everyone" Hates The Parent Trigger

Christmas-TreeHere are some of the reasons why the coverage of the parent trigger in Compton is skewing against the petitioners who want to do a conversion turnaround and hand the building over to Celerity: (1) Turnarounds of any kind are high-risk, uncertain propositions that cause a lot of displacement and collateral damage. (2) People -- educators -- are really angry and feel scapegoated by the recent reform trends (value added, removing charter caps, etc). (3) Current reforms haven't (yet?) proven to be any more