History of IDEA
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Parents, teachers, and activists debate education in Los Angeles
- 01-14-2011
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Uprising Radio, KPFK (Article and Audio)
Compton’s McKinley Elementary School has found itself at the center of the on-going national debate on education. Touching off this latest battle is the so-called “Parent Trigger” option, outlined in The Parent Empowerment Act of 2010, which recently passed California’s state legislature by a slim but bipartisan majority. Under the trigger option a majority of parents whose students are enrolled in a school deemed by the California Department of Education (CDE) as “chronically underperforming,” can petition that school to enact one of four intervention models. (more…)
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