Parent-trigger school should work with L.A. Unified, group says
by By Howard Blume
By Howard Blume
April 3, 2013, 12:17 p.m.
A parent committee is recommending that a charter school and the L.A. Unified School District should collaborate to run 24th Street Elementary, which was the subject of a successful petition under the controversial parent-trigger law.
The recommendation, which will be formally released Tuesday, is for L.A. Unified to partner with Crown Preparatory Academy. The district would run the kindergarten-through-fourth grade program and Crown Prep would manage grades five through eight, said David Phelps, a spokesman for Parent Revolution, a locally founded group that is advocating for parent-trigger laws nationwide.
"The parents were very impressed with all the proposals they received and reviewed," Phelps said. He added that the review period was extended to "allow LAUSD and Crown Prep to work out a partnership arrangement at the specific request of the parents."
"The parents believed -- and continue to believe -- both the LAUSD and Crown Prep proposals offered significant transformational ideas for 24th Street Elementary."
The state's parent-trigger law allows a majority of a school's parents, by signing a petition, to decide the fate of a low-performing school. The parents who sign the petition have the option of turning 
