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State NAACP endorses ‘parent trigger’
- 10-28-2010
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
Taking a different tack on school reform from the national headquarters, the California chapter of the NAACP adopted a resolution endorsing the “parent trigger” at its state convention last weekend. Parent trigger was one of the reforms that the Legislature passed earlier this year to bolster its Race to the Top application. Under a parent trigger, a majority of parents in an underperforming school can demand that their school be turned over to a charter operator or be transformed in one of three other ways permitted under President Obama’s plan for turning around failing schools. (more…)
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