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Thursday, January 31, 2013

Do parent trigger laws fire blanks? Is it parents who really take over schools or management companies? | Get Schooled

Do parent trigger laws fire blanks? Is it parents who really take over schools or management companies? | Get Schooled:


Do parent trigger laws fire blanks? Is it parents who really take over schools or management companies?

In explaining the impetus for his parent trigger bill,  House Majority Whip Edward Lindsey, R-Atlanta, cited the need to get parents and school boards talking.
“It creates an additional avenue of communication directly from the parents to the school board, which I think is critically important.” Lindsey told a media assemblage earlier this month.
Wouldn’t coffee chats be an easier way to get parents and school boards talking?
House Bill 123 allows a majority of the parents or a majority of the faculty and instructional staff  to petition for a complete overhaul of the school by converting to charter school status or another turnaround model.
The bill specifies that the parents can:
1) Remove school personnel, including the principal and personnel whose performance has