The contentious debate over California's parent trigger law is finally nearing an end that ought to satisfy most everyone -- if the state board of education, at its meeting Wednesday in Sacramento, can muster the six votes needed to approve draft regulations to implement the law.

Passed in January 2010, the trigger allows a majority of parents in some chronically failing schools to petition for the launch of one of four turnaround strategies, such as a charter conversion. The state school board started developing the regulations last year, but started over when Gov. Jerry Brown appointed a new board majority.

Some administrators and teachers fought the law and sought strict controls on how it could be used. But the problems at the one school that has used the trigger seem to have persuaded most opponents of the law to find