Parent Trigger law

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This could be a good idea for more charter schools...

First California public school falls to “parent trigger law”

By Jack Cody
14 August 2013

Elementary school students in the small California town of Adelanto came back to a different school in late July than they left at the end of the last school year. Over the truncated summer break, Desert Trails Elementary School, the neighborhood public school, was taken over by a charter and re-opened under a new name, Desert Trails Preparatory Academy. The completed conversion makes Desert Trails Elementary the first public school in California to fall to the controversial Parent Trigger law.

Under the so-called Parent Trigger law, first passed by the California state legislature in 2010, a group or organization gathering signatures from 51 percent of parents can seize an underperforming public school and transfer control to a private operator, called a charter. The campaign to convert Desert Trails began in 2011, when an organization called Parent Revolution began circulating petitions.

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http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/08/14/cali-a14

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Desert Trails Preparatory Academy already shows signs of weeding out the underprivileged to boost test scores. According to Yuan, “the most recent enrollment records show only 198 students from Desert Trails Elementary enrolled in the new school. But the total enrollment is over 500, where did all those extra kids come from? Are they bringing them in from other towns? Did they transfer them Hesperia? Any change in test scores will not show anything because they are not testing the same students.”

Asked specifically if she thought the new charter school would try to systematically squeeze out lower performing students to boost its test scores, Yuan replied, “Absolutely! That is why they are starting several weeks earlier, so the kids who get weeded out can start on time