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Parents who are trying to push for a charter school takeover at a Compton Unified elementary school have raised a stink after the district said it would verify all of the signatures on a petition before turning over the elementary school to outsiders.

Parent Revolution, the pro-charter school group of parents at McKinley Elementary School, held a press conference Monday to demand that the district honor the parent trigger policy, which allows parents who collect 51 percent of a school’s parent signatures to bring in a charter school. After reports of intimidation from both sides, the district said it was going to ask every parent who initially signed the original petition, filed back in December, to come back to the school this Wednesday or