Compton School District Tries to Force 'Parent Trigger' Signers to Declare Discontent Face-to-Face With School Officials - Los Angeles News - The Informer

Compton School District Tries to Force 'Parent Trigger' Signers to Declare Discontent Face-to-Face With School Officials - Los Angeles News - The Informer

Compton School District Tries to Force 'Parent Trigger' Signers to Declare Discontent Face-to-Face With School Officials

By Simone Wilson, Thu., Jan. 20 2011 @ 2:30PM

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Compton parents who want to switch McKinley Elementary into different hands will have to tell that to district higher-ups next week

​At an unannounced Compton Unified School District meeting last night, district officials demanded that McKinley Elementary School parents -- over 60 percent of whom petitioned in December to turn their children's campus into a charter school -- come to campus and verify their signatures next week.

The attempted takeover was made possible by a highly disputed new law called Parent Trigger, which allows half-or-more of parents at any failing school (as designated by the U.S. Department of Education) to make major decisions about its future.

Ismenia Guzman, a Parent Trigger supporter who attended last night's meeting, says the 30 or 40 parents in attendance were given a