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Stealth charter school campaign draws criticism | California Watch

Stealth charter school campaign draws criticism | California Watch

Stealth charter school campaign draws criticism

The first attempt to use a controversial "parent trigger" law to convert a regular public school into a charter school has raised at least one key question: just how public should the petition drive be to gather the majority of parent signatures needed to trigger the change?

On Dec. 7 a majority of parents at McKinley Elementary School in Compton Unified School District filed a petition demanding that their school be turned into a charter school, and naming the charter school company