Absent spending significant time and money to hire tutors and enroll in after school learning programs to do the job too many schools can’t, students and parents have few options. With no school choice, they can either move or they have nowhere else to go.
It’s time for lawmakers to give students and parents a fighting chance and revive the parent trigger law.
Just over a decade ago, parents and students trapped in failing schools had a way out, known as the Parent Empowerment Law.
Unfortunately, the law was murdered in the dark and has been almost entirely forgotten.
Nothing contained in this blog is to be construed as necessarily reflecting the views of the Pacific Research Institute or as an attempt to thwart or aid the passage of any legislation.
Give students a chance, revive the parent trigger law
Matthew Fleming
Absent spending significant time and money to hire tutors and enroll in after school learning programs to do the job too many schools can’t, students and parents have few options. With no school choice, they can either move or they have nowhere else to go.
It’s time for lawmakers to give students and parents a fighting chance and revive the parent trigger law.
Just over a decade ago, parents and students trapped in failing schools had a way out, known as the Parent Empowerment Law.
Unfortunately, the law was murdered in the dark and has been almost entirely forgotten.
Read the entire op-ed.
Nothing contained in this blog is to be construed as necessarily reflecting the views of the Pacific Research Institute or as an attempt to thwart or aid the passage of any legislation.