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June 15, 2011'Parent Trigger' Laws: Shutting Schools, Raising ControversyIn a bare-bones basement office in Buffalo, N.Y., Katie Campos, an education activist, is plotting a revolution. She and her minuscule staff of the advocacy group Buffalo ReformED are against incredible odds. In less than a week, they are trying to get a controversial law known as the "parent trigger" through the New York legislature. It's a powerful nickname for game-changing legislation that would enable parents who could gather a majority at any persistently failing school to either fire the principal, fire 50% of the teachers, close the school or turn it into a charter school.Posted by Jim Zellmer at June 15, 2011 1:49 AM Subscribe to this site via RSS/Atom: Newsletter signup | Send us your ideas Comments
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