The Heartland Institute

... introduce a constitutional amendment to protect parents’ right to direct their children’s... Jindal signs a new kind of Parent Trigger into law. A New Hampshire court... a comprehensive nationwide review finds . Texas parents celebrate a new law reducing mandatory testing . What kind of learning is really... ...

...Exercising their rights under California’s 2010 Parent Trigger law, more than 300 parents delivered petitions to the Los Angeles... or converted into a charter school. Parents are now reviewing proposals from eight... been set.” Sixty-eight percent of parents whose children attend 24th Street Elementary... ...

Voters elected Teresa Rogers, a parent who helped pull a Parent Trigger in Adelanto, California, to the district...’s school board. That school board had opposed parents’ efforts to convert a failing school... school. It took a lawsuit, but parents won. “We need to change the... achievement,” Rogers... ...

... he says. Despite California's 2010 Parent Trigger law that allows poorly performing public... often owned by teachers unions, and parents have to go through an appeals... charter schools opened in fall 2012. "Parents want high-quality choices, and our school district and superintendent have been very... ...

... 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... ...

A judge recently ruled that a Parent Trigger petition from parents in Adelanto, California is valid and... the first state to pass a Parent Trigger law, which a dozen other states... It allows a simple majority of parents at a failing school to “trigger” one of several reform options... ...