Parent Trigger Opponent Proposes Real Common Ground on Education Reform
Carlos Mendoza served with distinction and was wounded on the front line of education reform. As president of the California school board tasked with dealing with a Parent Trigger application in tiny Adelanto, Mendoza was the first to experience the full force of the charter school industry backed by billionaire bucks.
The paid organizers of Parent Revolution rented a home near Desert Trail Elementary School and kept agitating parents for signatures on three different petitions until the got the number they wanted. California law mandated the local school board verify the signatures. Parent Revolution didn’t like the actions Mendoza’s board took on the signatures and those involving the petition and filed a lawsuit. With unlimited funding, a small town school
The paid organizers of Parent Revolution rented a home near Desert Trail Elementary School and kept agitating parents for signatures on three different petitions until the got the number they wanted. California law mandated the local school board verify the signatures. Parent Revolution didn’t like the actions Mendoza’s board took on the signatures and those involving the petition and filed a lawsuit. With unlimited funding, a small town school
