Most ct and parent trigger related news are at:
AM News: NCLB Waivers Hurt Tutoring - & At-Risk Students 27 Aug 2013 | 06:01 pm
Study: Waivers leave behind at-risk students AP: Millions of at-risk students could fall through the cracks as the Education Department gives states permission to ignore parts of No Child Left Behind,...
Afternoon Video: How School Clerk Talked School Shooter Down 27 Aug 2013 | 01:53 am
This interview with an Atlanta-area school clerk is from last week, but perhaps you were away like I was, or didn't get to see it already. (Slate: Atlanta school clerk says she talked gunman into sur...
More ct and parent trigger related news:
OPINION: CUSD widely perceived to be stalling on McKinley Parent Trigger pull allisonjeaneaton.wordpress.com 3 Feb 2011 | 02:42 pm
The Nitty Gritty and L.A. Weekly aren’t the only ones to see Compton Unified’s appalling handling of parents’ push to transfer control of an ailing elementary school into the hands of a charter operat...
ANOTHER PARENT TRIGGER TWIST: Parents file federal complaint alleging teachers harassing kids allisonjeaneaton.wordpress.com 19 Jan 2011 | 08:07 pm
Activists fighting to turn McKinley Elementary into a charter school say teachers are intimidating their children in retaliation for their parents’ push for school reform COMPTON—The plot has thicken...
U.S. Debates the "Parent Trigger" prealblog.blogspot.com 3 Jul 2012 | 12:22 am
Image from second article listed below. A new policy that gives parents unprecedented authority to make changes in the schools their children attend is gaining support and stirring controversy in th....
Film Review: Why “Won’t Back Down” Won’t Last Long At The Box Office wiredacademic.com 25 Oct 2012 | 11:00 am
The story is modeled on the “parent-trigger” legislation passed in California in 2010. The “actual events” that “inspired” the film, I suppose, are the enactment of a “parent-trigger” law—but no succe...
(Education Week) Parent Revolution: We Need to Work Together parentrevolution.org 10 Jul 2013 | 02:47 am
To the Editor: Three years ago, California enacted a groundbreaking new law called the "parent trigger" that gives parents the power to transform their failing neighborhood schools. From the start, o...
Parent Trigger Law Turns a Corner in California [Social Policy magazine] parentrevolution.org 22 Jul 2013 | 10:58 pm
(Pat DeTemple, Senior Strategist for Parent Revolution) At a neighborhood park in Los Angeles this past April, the mostly Latino parent union of nearby 24th St. Elementary was conducting a secret bal...
Haddon Parents Abandon Trigger, Still Get Changes parentrevolution.org 1 Aug 2013 | 04:43 am
Haddon Elementary Parents In California public education, you sometimes don’t have to pull the trigger. Parents of students at Haddon Avenue Elementary in Pacoima have ended their ‘parent trigger’ c...
School Born of California Parent-Trigger Law Opens Its Doors familytaxpayers.org 31 Jul 2013 | 07:36 pm
A new chapter in California’s, and the nation’s, relationship with “parent-trigger” laws begins today, as the first school to have come into being as a result of one those controversial policies opens...
Sunday at the Movies (Parent Trigger) societyforqualityeducation.org 18 Aug 2013 | 05:25 pm
Current Education Issues: What are Parent Trigger Laws? drpfconsults.com 21 May 2013 | 08:04 pm
Among the current education issues we face in America, there are some hot topics in education popping up. One topic that is of utmost importance is parent trigger laws. These laws give parents more di...
