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Trigger happy?
- 10-21-2011
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By Andrew Brownstein/Title I-Derland
From the Unintended Consequences Dept.: The recently announced NCLB waivers — you know, the ones that were supposed to provide “flexibility” so states may become “engines of innovation” — may shut down a nascent state-led effort to give parents more control when their children’s schools are low-performing. The controversial “parent trigger” laws kick in when a school has reached an advanced stage of improvement under NCLB’s cascading accountability regimen and allow parents to pursue radical interventions if a majority of them sign a petition demanding them. For example, when a school in Compton, Calif., went into corrective action, parents used the law to petition to reopen it as a charter school. Similar laws exist in Texas, Ohio and Connecticut and are being considered in a dozen other states. For states that opt for waivers, however, corrective action (and other NCLB sanctions) will be a thing of the past. (more...)
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