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Parents reject Compton’s demand
- 01-26-2011
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
Parents at McKinley Elementary School in Compton Unified plan to ignore the district’s demand that they show up today or Thursday with an official photo ID to verify their signatures on the state’s first “parent trigger” petition. Organizers are charging that the district’s requirement is a transparent effort to disenfranchise them – many are undocumented immigrants without driver’s licenses – and say they’ve lined up pro bono lawyers to go to court. That appears inevitable. The district has been combating the parents’ campaign to turn the elementary school, whose state academic scores are among the bottom 10 percent, into a charter school through the parent trigger law. Officials will cite the failure to conform to their verification requirements to disqualify the signatures and throw out the petition. (more...)
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