Parent trigger and charters: As we offer more school choice, what happens to children left behind? | Get Schooled

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Parent trigger and charters: As we offer more school choice, what happens to children left behind?

by Maureen Downey

Shanna Miles is an educator and a parent working in the metro Atlanta area. An avid literacy advocate, she lobbies to ensure that every child has access to a free and public library in a community.
She wrote this piece for the Monday print AJC education op-ed page.

By Shanna Miles
In the 1840s, Irish Catholic parents lobbied for local control of schools so that their children wouldn’t be indoctrinated by a Protestant curriculum.
In 1957, President Dwight Eisenhower had to call in the National Guard to lead nine African-American children past a picket line of angry white parents who were outraged that their school was to be integrated.

Fast-forward a half-century or so, and the war between government and parents still rages with the