California BoE calls for investigation of petition drive under “parent trigger"

[formerlurker]

California Board of Education calls for investigation of petition drive under “parent trigger” law

The state Board of Education plans to ask the attorney general to investigate complaints of misconduct surrounding a parent petition drive to turn over a struggling Compton elementary school to a charter school operation, according to a Los Angeles Times report in Education Week. The petition drive at McKinley Elementary School, the state’s first test of a new law that empowers parents to make sweeping changes at low-performing schools, has been mired in charges and counter charges of deceit and intimidation since signatures, said to represent 62% of the school’s parents, were submitted to the Compton Unified School District. Parent Revolution, the Los Angeles nonprofit that targeted McKinley for its first petition drive, chose a charter conversion as one of four options for change and selected Celerity Educational Group as the charter operator.

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We knew this was coming.  Parents secure the signatures they need to overhaul the school, and the AG sweeps in to intimidate and void their efforts.


Disgusting.

[JohnnyReb]

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We knew this was coming.  Parents secure the signatures they need to overhaul the school, and the AG sweeps in to intimidate and void their efforts.


Disgusting.

It's the liberal way.....If they don't get their way at the voting booth or in the legislature....then go to the lawyers and courts.

It's their way or the highway....uh... make that the low way.

[NHSparky]

Keep 'em dumb and poor--it's the Democrat way.

[Celtic Rose]

I'll bet you anything that that school is either majority hispanic or majority black.  Who is trying to disenfranchise minorities now, liberals?  Your own politicians. 

I hope the parents fight this and win. 

[NHSparky]

I'll bet you anything that that school is either majority hispanic or majority black.  Who is trying to disenfranchise minorities now, liberals?  Your own politicians. 

I hope the parents fight this and win. 

Ding ding ding!!!  MacArthur Elementary--over 80 percent Hispanic.

[true_blood]

And so goes Commiefornia. What a surprise!
I hope the parents keep fighting and win.

[Ptarmigan]

And so goes Commiefornia. What a surprise!
I hope the parents keep fighting and win.

California is so broke right now. Just look at them.

[true_blood]

California is so broke right now. Just look at them.

Yes they are. A lot of people don't really want to face the fact that they are pretty much bankrupt.
Liberals do such a great job with economics.

[thundley4]

Ding ding ding!!!  MacArthur Elementary--over 80 percent Hispanic.

How many of them are here legally?  Maybe, the question should be how many of their parents are here legally.  That might come up if it suits the teacher's unions.  The parents were legal citizens, therefore they don't meet the qualifications for signing the petitions.

[NHSparky]

How many of them are here legally?  Maybe, the question should be how many of their parents are here legally.  That might come up if it suits the teacher's unions.  The parents were legal citizens, therefore they don't meet the qualifications for signing the petitions.

Problem is, most of LAUSD sucks...legal, illegal, black, white, brown...

[thundley4]

Problem is, most of LAUSD sucks...legal, illegal, black, white, brown...

That's a given, they're run by liberals.  That still wouldn't stop them from using the illegal immigrant status against the petition signers if it helps the unions keep control.