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San Francisco Unified freshens up its school menu
This week San Francisco Unified chose Revolution Foods as its new school meals vendor, moving away from frozen entrées to fresh breakfasts and lunches made with produce purchased locally. … Read entire article »
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Desert Trails parents choose charter operator, next step in ‘parent trigger’
With a low voter turnout Thursday, parents exercising a “parent trigger” option at the Desert Trails Elementary in Adelanto selected a charter operator in nearby Hesperia to run their school starting next August. The selection of LaVerne Elementary Preparatory Academy, a small K-8 charter with an API of 911 – more than 200 points above Desert Trails’ score of 699 this year – marked the next stage in parents’ contentious and protracted exercise of California’s parent empowerment law. Teachers at the school, who may lose their jobs in the conversion to a charter school, as well as parents opposing the move, will seize on the vote by only 53 parents. Last spring, 286 parents, representing a majority of the students enrolled in the K-5 school, signed the petition that gave them … Read entire article »
Filed under: Charter Schools, Featured, Parent Activism, Parent Trigger, Parents, Reporting & Analysis
Distinct choice for ‘parent trigger’ families in Adelanto
Two nearby charter school operators have expressed interest in running a besieged elementary school in the Mojave Desert town of Adelanto, ending worries of organizers of the state’s first successful “parent trigger” that their invitation for applicants to take over their school might go unanswered. Organizers of the Desert Trails Parent Union announced Tuesday that they have invited the two charter operators and a non-charter school improvement consulting firm to submit a formal charter school application … Read entire article »
Filed under: Charter Schools, Featured, Languages, Parent Activism, Parent Trigger, Reporting & Analysis, Science, Math (STEM)
Big win in court for ‘parent trigger’ organizers
A Superior Court judge has given the parents in a Mojave Desert town who pulled the state’s second “parent trigger” a milestone victory. San Bernardino County Superior Court Judge Steve Malone ruled that the Adelanto School District trustees illegally rejected the petition submitted by a majority of parents to turn Desert Trails Elementary into a charter school. Malone has given the school board a month to approve the petition, and the parents a green light to … Read entire article »
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