With court win, 'parent trigger' school reform moves to crucial vote | California Watch

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With court win, 'parent trigger' school reform moves to crucial vote

by Natasha Lindstrom

Anonymous

David Pardo/Victorville Daily Press Doreen Diaz, mother of a fifth-grader at Desert Trails Elementary School in Adelanto, Calif., speaks about school reform during a parent union press conference in January.

About nine months ago, at a small park playground a few hundred feet from their children’s struggling school, a group of parents chanted, cheered and delivered passionate speeches about their growing frustration with Desert Trails Elementary.
That Jan. 12 park rally – which drew a throng of camera crews and reporters from around the state to the tiny desert city of Adelanto, Calif. – marked the beginning of a bitter battle in the national spotlight. That was when the Desert Trails Parent Union announced its petition to use the so-called “parent trigger” law to force a major