Why Parents Across America Opposes Florida’s Parent Trigger Legislation
Influential public school advocacy group Parents Across America stated its oppostion today to proposed Florida’s parent trigger legislation, calling the bill’s Parent Empowerment name “insidious and deceptive.”
Florida’s new legislation is modeled after California’s Parent Empowerment Act passed in early 2010. It is widely supported by backers of corporate reform.
The law creates a process known as the “Parent Trigger,” which allows a majority of parents at a low-performing school to sign a petition to trigger one of a narrow set of options – firing all or some of the staff, turning the school over to a charter operator, or closing the school.
None of these options improve the quality of the neighborhood public school
Although PAA strongly supports authentic parent empowerment, we oppose this Parent Trigger
