A great editorial in The Sacramento Bee supporting the parent trigger:

What options do parents have if their neighborhood school remains among the state's lowest performers year after year after year? What can they do when approaching teachers or the principal or the school board has won little in the way of improvement?

Children have only one shot at an education, so the matter is urgent.

Under California law, teachers who want major change at a school can petition the school board to convert an existing public school to a charter school.

But until last year, parents of children at a chronically underperforming school had no such right.

That's why the so-called "parent trigger" law passed by the Legislature and signed by then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is so important.

But opponents are trying to kill it before it even gets a chance to work. Gov. Jerry Brown needs to stand up for parents. And his newly appointed State Board of Education needs to get regulations in place to implement it.

In the current limbo period, parents are being cheated of the law's promise.

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This story is taken from Sacbee

 

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Editorial: State must give 'parent trigger' a chance to work

PUBLISHED SUNDAY, JAN. 30, 2011