“Parent trigger” policy and a model for disguise
NOVEMBER 18, 2010
I received an article from a list server a few days ago that goes a little something like this:
The Radical School Reform You’ve Never Heard Of With ‘parent trigger,’ families can forcibly change failing schools.
By David Feith
Debates about education these days tend to center on familiar terms like charter schools and merit pay. Now a new fault line is emerging: “parent trigger.”
Like many radical ideas, parent trigger originated in California, as an innovation of a liberal activist group called Parent Revolution. The average student in Los Angeles has only a 50% chance of graduating high school and a 10% chance of attending college. It’s a crisis, says Parent Revolution leader Ben Austin, that calls for “an
