How Parent Revolution’s Adelanto Saga Shows Parent Trigger is Wrong for Florida
Washington Post reporter Lyndsey Layton and a photographer made the trip to Adelanto, California for a first hand look at the hotly contested parent trigger petition battle going on there. Layton’s reporting reveals details of the realities that exist at Desert Trails Elementary and the astonishing lengths that charter school advocacy group Parent Revolution go to achieve their objectives.
…..(parents) sought help from Parent Revolution. The group, founded by a charter school entrepreneur, sent professional organizers to Adelanto to give the parents a crash course in the law, signature gathering, educational policy and even media handling.
Parent Revolution rented a house near the elementary school and converted it into a nerve center