Tag Archives: Trigger Laws

Parent Involvement or Parent Trigger?

This year has been interesting in the so-called fight over education reform. It seems that in many areas, the concept of the parent trigger laws that are currently in nine states (and likely to expand) are en vogue. In fact, I wonder if any of my readers saw the movie Won’t Back Down – a movie that [...]

Parent Trigger Laws are the Wrong Message

I am opposed to parent trigger laws not because I don’t believe that parents have the right to change their children’s schools. I am opposed on a more fundamental level – I don’t believe that charter schools work as advert