Compton parents claim retaliation in school reform
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
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(01-18) 10:56 PST Compton, Calif. (AP) --
Two parent activists have filed complaints with the U.S. Department of Education's civil rights office alleging they and their children have been victims of retaliation because they support a campaign to turn over a local school to a charter operator.
Marlene Romero and Hebert Hidalgo said in documents filed late Friday that teachers at McKinley Elementary School are using lies and intimidation to turn their children against them.
A spokesman at Compton Unified School District did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment Tuesday.
Romero and Hidalgo are two organizers behind a petition filed last month under California's "parent trigger" law, which allows a majority of parents at a failing school to force a district to make drastic changes to turn around the school, including charter
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