Judge: Parents can’t rescind “parent trigger” signatures
by CarolineSF
The parent trigger, an idea presented by the voices of corporate education “reform” as parent “empowerment,” won a round in court this week. Ironically, the court came down firmly in favor of disempowering parents, as the parent trigger’s sponsors had requested.
The ruling by a California Superior Court judge decreed that parents who have signed a parent trigger petition do not have the right to change their minds and may not rescind their signatures. The ruling cast the future of the targeted school, Desert Trails in Adelanto, in Southern California’s high desert, into confusion. The strangest part of the story is that charter operators will now be invited to bid for the school, even though Desert Trails parents on both sides of the controversy say they don’t want the school to become a charter — disempowering them even further.
California’s so-called parent trigger law was presented as allowing parents to take over
