The California Board of Education has approved a new set of regulations that will give parents more control to force changes to low-performing public schools.
The “parent trigger” rules will allow a majority of parents at low-performing schools to petition school districts for major changes that include adding intervention programs, removing the principal, replacing staff, converting the campus to a charter, or closing the school altogether.
Supporters of California’s “Parent Trigger” law, applaud during testimony in support of the measure during the the state Board of Education meeting in Sacramento Wednesday. By a unanimous vote, the board approved the “trigger” law, which will allow parents to demand a turnaround at failing schools through a petition signed by a majority of parents at the school. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
“We want not just parental involvement, we want true power to help guide the education of children,” former state Sen. Gloria Romero, the co-author of the legislation that led to the rules, told the Associated Press.