The Heartland Institute

... of politics. One such idea is the Parent Trigger, the notion that if a majority of parents and guardians of children attending a... school district must do as the parents ask. Seven states have adopted some version of the Parent Trigger and some 20 states have seen bills... ...

... hostile to reform, California’s landmark parent empowerment law, also known as the Parent Trigger, was passed quickly by the state... state did not win the grant, the Parent Trigger remains in place. But the law... it lacks critical details about how parents may set in motion... ...

The 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... ...

The financial crisis that started in the summer of 2007 in the subprime mortgage market in the U.S. and spread quickly both to other financial sectors and throughout much of the globe was the most severe such crisis since the Great Depression of the early 1930s with similar but less-severe adverse consequences for the domestic ...