The Heartland Institute

...Recent reports claiming the Obama administration supports Parent Trigger or parent empowerment legislation are untrue. The administration... Justin Hamilton told School Reform News . Parent Trigger laws have passed in four states... California law in 2010. They allow parents whose children attend... ...

... these new options is available to parents? While school choice programs were proliferating, parent engagement networks also became increasingly common, bolstered by nationwide attention to Parent Trigger legislation. Numerous school choice advocacy and... dollars to each child and allowing parents... ...

... that is garnering significant national attention: the Parent Trigger. The legislation, first passed in California... a dozen other states. The Louisiana Parent Trigger would allow a simple majority of parents at a school to “trigger” its conversion to a charter school... the state’s... ...

...High-profile writers and publications have recently written the Parent Trigger needs to change drastically, or that parents can't be trusted with its power. RiShawn Biddle, editor of Dropout Nation and a contributor to the American Spectator, explains why these ideas are foolish, demeaning, and antithetical... ...