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Jan 26, 2012
Study: Massachusetts Provides Lessons for Obamacare
Imagine a marketplace where you have to receive government approval for setting prices on your product, where you have to show your math for every decision made, and where you are
Jan 26, 2012
Indiana, Amazon.com Reach Sales Tax Agreement
Indiana government officials and the nation’s largest online retailer have reached an agreement to begin collecting Indiana sales tax on Internet purchases.
Jan 26, 2012
Mike Ford: Structuring Teacher Pay in Gov. Walker's Wisconsin
Many states are implementing merit pay and value-added assessments for teachers, but Mike Ford of the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute says they'd do better to follow a different approac
Jan 26, 2012
Research & Commentary: Early Childhood Education
In November 2011, President Barack Obama restructured Head Start funding to require competitive grants for the least effective providers, to forestall congressional Republicans seeking to limit or
Jan 26, 2012
House Committee Releases Next NCLB Bill Draft
House Republicans have released draft language for the last two of five bills to rewrite and reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, currently known as No Child Left Behind.
Jan 25, 2012
James Taylor: Keystone XL Pipeline was a win-win Proposition
Heartland Institute Senior Fellow James M. Taylor explains why the Keystone XL pipeline was a win-win proposition for our environment and the economy on The Mike Siegel Show.
FEATURED SEARCH: "THE PARENT TRIGGER"
May 3, 2010
The Parent Trigger: A New Paradigm for Parental Empowerment
Gabe RoseWhat is the Parent Trigger? The Parent Trigger is a historic new law that gives parents in California the right to force... future underperforming school. If 51% of parents sign a Parent Trigger petition, the Local Education Authority (LEA... four options available for... ...
Aug 10, 2010
The Parent Trigger: A Model for Transforming Education
Policy Brief - Joseph L. Bast, Bruno Behrend, Ben Boychuk, and Marc Oestreich, Joseph Bast, Ben Boychuk, Bruno BehrendThe Parent Trigger is an innovation in education reform... California. Briefly put, if half the parents whose children attend a failing public... of two other types of reform. The Parent Trigger concept is the creation of the Los Angeles Parents Union, a group of self-described... ...
Dec 1, 2011
Research & Commentary: The Parent Trigger, One Year Later
Research and Commentary - Joy PullmannCalifornia passed the first Parent Trigger law in January 2010, taking until... 2011 14 state legislatures also considered Parent Triggers. The Parent Trigger allows parents at a school deemed failing, often... take place. If a majority of parents sign the petitions, the school... ...
Dec 13, 2011
Research & Commentary: The Parent Trigger, One Year Later
Research and Commentary - Joy PullmannCalifornia passed the first Parent Trigger law in January 2010, taking until... 2011 14 state legislatures also considered Parent Triggers. The Parent Trigger allows parents at a school deemed failing, often... take place. If a majority of parents sign the petitions, the school... ...
Nov 13, 2010
Q : What Do Parents Need to Know About the ‘Parent Trigger’?
Ben Boychuk, Ben BoychukCalifornia’s parent empowerment law, known as the “parent trigger,” is less than a year old... Los Angeles-based activist group called Parent Revolution. Under California’s law, passed... if 50.1 percent of qualifying parents sign a petition, the school must... School Reform News recently spoke... ...
Aug 4, 2011
Responding to Jay Mathews: Is the Parent Trigger a ‘Waste of Time’?
... Mathew’s Washington Post musings on the Parent Trigger in light of teachers union documents detailing a strategy to derail the parent empowerment legislation, Bruno Behrend, director of... s Jay Mathews has re-declared the Parent Trigger “a waste of time,” because “firing on [the education... ...