Judge sides with Compton parents
Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge has slapped down Compton Unified over tactics it used against parents who have launched the state’s first parent trigger initiative. In a ruling Wednesday Judge Anthony Mohr issued an injunction prohibiting the district from requiring McKinley Elementary School parents who signed the parent trigger petition from showing up in person to verify their signatures and to prove their identities with a photo ID. Mohr has given Compton Unified until 5 p.m. April 1 to verify the parents’ signatures. (more...)