Judge to throw out Trigger petitions

05-24-2011

Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess

Parents at Compton Unified who filed the state’s first Parent Trigger petition will get the charter school they’ve demanded. It just won’t be at their school, McKinley Elementary, but in a church down the street instead. In a major setback to their cause, a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge tentatively ruled that he would throw out the petitions signed by 265 parents on a technicality: a failure to have each parent fill in the date when they signed the petition. While stating that he was “aware of the pain, frustration and perhaps educational disadvantages this ruling may cause,” Judge Anthony Mohr wrote that state law compelled him to nullify the petitions. (more...)

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