The Heartland Institute

... district officials rejected a petition by parents to convert Desert Trails Elementary School... charter under the nation’s inaugural Parent Trigger law. The Adelanto Elementary School District... in late February to deny the parents’ petition, which district Superintendent Darin Brawley... threshold required... ...

Parents of students at a failing elementary... their rights under the state’s Parent Trigger law. Members of the Desert Trails Elementary parent union say if the Adelanto Elementary... charter school,” said Doreen Diaz, a parent and lead organizer with the Desert Trails Parent Union. Parents... ...

... 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... ...

Parents and teachers in Michigan would have... the Republican-controlled state Senate. The Parent Empowerment Education Reform package is a... September 7. It would establish a Parent Trigger inspired by California’s landmark law... is giving choices and power to parents and students across the state... ...

... Debate Begins Monday, August 15, 2011. THE PARENT TRIGGER: A POSITIVE STEP OR A DISTRACTION... California enacted education legislation known as the “parent trigger.” The legislation empowers parents of children at schools that have... signatures from at least 51% of parents at... ...

... regulations governing the state’s landmark Parent Trigger law at its September meeting. The... be a formality. Under the 2010 parent empowerment law, if at least half of eligible parents at a persistently failing school sign... several prescribed “intervention models.” For example, parents may convert... ...