Grannan: Powerful “Parent” Trigger operators target vulnerable school; attack misfires
Guest post by Caroline Grannan -- P.P.
The current hot story in education reform is California's Parent Trigger law and its deployment against high-poverty McKinley Elementary school in disadvantaged Compton, near Los Angeles.
The simplified description of this law, which the state Legislature passed last year, is that it mandates radical change at a school if petitions are turned in bearing the signatures of more than 50 percent of the parents at the school (and for middle and high schools, of parents at feeder schools, a situation undoubtedly as unwieldy as it sounds).
In the McKinley Elementary situation, as with other complex education reform issues, reading through the press