Description: 21st century concept of education
Florida is reconsidering a bill that has been commonly called the Parent Trigger law. California was the first state to actually make Parent Trigger a law. The law has been spun to present a picture of empowered parents uniting a community to save a failing school. In my experience, there has never been anything further from the truth.
I was the school board president of the Adelanto Elementary School District when Parent Revolution, a lobbyist group, bullied our small California school district with lawsuits into accepting the parent trigger petition.
The Parent Trigger Law essentially states that the signatures of a simple majority of parents in a failing school can force the district into one of five intervention models.