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LAUSD to compete with charters to run ‘parent trigger’ school
The parents at 24th Street Elementary School in Los Angeles Unified will have plenty of choices for an operator to take over their school under the “parent trigger” process they initiated this month. One of the contenders will be the district itself. The school’s Parents’ Union announced Monday it had received letters of intent from eight organizations saying they would submit detailed proposals on how they would turn the low-performing school around. They include six outside … Read entire article »
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‘Parent trigger’ organizers find willing partner in Los Angeles Unified
The third time appears to be a charm for organizers marshaling parents to reconstitute low-performing schools under the state’s “parent trigger” law. Compared with the trench warfare with teachers and district officials that parents encountered while seeking to transform low-performing elementary schools in Compton and Adelanto, parents at the 24th Street Elementary School in Los Angeles Unified received encouragement rather than resistance from school officials when they submitted a “parent trigger”petition last week. Los Angeles Unified … Read entire article »
Filed under: Charter Schools, Featured, Parent Trigger, Reporting & Analysis, Turning around failing schools
‘Parent trigger’ backers notch first win with charter in Adelanto
The pitched battle over the “parent trigger” campaign in the Adelanto School District is over. On Tuesday, the school board in the Mojave Desert town unanimously approved the parents-led conversion of Desert Trails Elementary to a charter school, marking the first successful use of the state Parent Empowerment Act of 2010. That law permits a majority of parents who sign a petition at a low-performing school to demand a restructuring option, including bringing in a charter school operator. The 4-0 vote to turn the school over to LaVerne Elementary Preparatory Academy, a high-scoring charter (911 API) in nearby Hesperia, was a sharp turnabout. The board had twice has rejected the parents’ petition, and opposition parents, backed by teachers, had organized a counter campaign. But a court ordered the petition to move … 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 »
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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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Video Highlights from
2013 EdSource Symposium
Transforming Public Education: What's Next For
Students, Teachers and Schools
- In Partnership with the California State PTA -
May 4th symposium in San Jose featured a number of prominent speakers on key challenges in education today, including Linda Darling-Hammond, Martha Kanter, and Pedro Noguera.
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