FL “parent trigger” bill turned around by parents
Congratulations to our powerful, tireless Parents Across America member, Rita Solnet, and other parents in Florida for taking a lemon of a bill (promoted as “parent empowerment”) and making it into something a lot more like lemonade!
According to the Tampa Bay Times,
Heading toward its first hearings, Florida’s proposed “Parent Empowerment Act” came uderblistering criticism from parent groups saying the initiative was a “scheme” to hand neighborhood schools over to private entities. Many parent groups immediately disavowed any input in the bill that supposedly is for them.
“They try to sell it as a piece of grassroots legislation,” said another parent about the so-called “parent trigger” law, but “It’s more astroturf.”
In a change that Illinois legislators and the Chicago school board ought to pay attention to, the Florida proposal