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Final (maybe) Trigger regs up for vote | Thoughts on Public Education

Final (maybe) Trigger regs up for vote | Thoughts on Public Education

Final (maybe) Trigger regs up for vote

Kirst had hand in it; Parent Revolution approves
By John Fensterwald - Educated Guess

On Wednesday, State Board of Education President Michael Kirst may finally succeed in getting the Parent Trigger off his and the Board’s agenda. But first, he must persuade a majority of the Board to pass the latest version of Parent Trigger regulations that he personally helped revise.

He’ll have an ally in Parent Revolution, the Los Angeles nonprofit that has been packing State Board meetings with dozens of parents month after month. While initially voicing fear that Kirst and other new State Board appointees of Gov. Jerry Brown would sabotage the law, last week Parent Revolution praised the latest “fair, thoughtful, pro-parent draft” of