The Heartland Institute

... are trying to predict which schools parents would choose if they could. 7... engineer the country's first successful "parent trigger" to wrangle control of a persistently failing school from local bureaucracy, a mother won election to the reform-opposing school board . She knocked out the school board president... ...

... on to different education topics, including the Parent Trigger and teacher evaluations, said Michael Bowman... United States,” he said. “We want parents to be the ones who decide what is best for their kids. We want schools to be the ones to decide how best to operate and for teachers to control... ...

... released by the Heartland Institute, titled "The Parent Trigger: Justification and Design Guidelines."... ...

... that has garnered significant national attention: the Parent Trigger. The legislation, first passed in California... Sen. Edward Lindsey indicate his proposed Parent Trigger would allow a simple majority of parents at a school to “trigger” its conversion to a charter school... school... ...

... California school board members who opposed parents pulling the Parent Trigger may have lost their seats in... STEM-based high school diplomas? Is Parent Trigger movie Won't Back Down too rosy about education's problems? For last week's School Reform News roundup, click here. For other top... ...

... in Michigan university admissions. 4. Virginia parents complain their district paid $7.7... the nation's mayors unanimously support the Parent Trigger . 2. We know ways to close... 4. How to launch a successful Parent University . 5. Pennsylvania lawmakers' refusal to... a central database of personal... ...