Parents Across America hails defeat of Florida’s Parent Trigger bill | Seattle Education

Parents Across America hails defeat of Florida’s Parent Trigger bill | Seattle Education:

Parents Across America hails defeat of Florida’s Parent Trigger bill

by seattleducation2011

Parents Across America hails defeat of Florida’s Parent Trigger bill:

A victory of parents over forces that would privatize and profit from our public schools

 Public education and true parent empowerment were the winners after a “Parent Trigger” law died on the floor of the Florida State Senate on March 9, said Rita Solnet, a Florida parent activist and a founding member of the national organization Parents Across America, who worked with other parent groups from the state to defeat the bill. Solnet hailed the outcome as a triumph of parents over the forces that would privatize and profit from our public schools.
“I pray this defeat helps other states to avoid a similar attack on our public schools,” said Solnet, a Boca Raton businesswoman and a co-founder of PAA. “This was a victory for true parent empowerment. By working together with my colleagues in PAA and other grassroots parent groups, including Save Duval Schools, 50^th No More, the Florida state PTA, Fund Education Now, and Testing is Not Teaching, we managed to beat the richly funded corporate reformers.”
The so-called Parent Empowerment in Education Act (SB 1718) was framed as allowing parents at a public