Will The Real School Reformers Please Stand Up?
School reform - it's about kids, right? Making sure kids have the best possible environment to learn and grow. But too often, it turns from being about kids to being about adults.
This week, we wrote about California's new Parent Trigger law and a group of parents at McKinley Elementary in Compton who rallied to turn their kids' school into a charter school because of low test scores and lack of improvement.
But now, their actions have come into question. A number of parents who signed the petition to overturn the school's leadership say the process was flawed - parents were lied to about what they were signing or not allowed to be at meetings where important decisions were made. Other parents say the group Parent Revolution, which helps schools use the new Parent Trigger law, is corrupt.
All of this came to light at a Compton school board meeting this week. But the anti-charter parents weren't the