Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Parent Trigger Laws: Why It's Better to Embrace Collaboration

Parent Trigger Laws: Why It's Better to Embrace Collaboration:
Blogger Anne O'Brien critiques Parent Trigger Laws, and proposes more constructive measures for involving families in their children's schools.
Maggie Gyllenhaal and Viola Davis in the film Won't Back Down about parent-trigger laws.
Parent trigger laws have been attracting a lot of attention of lately. At least 18 states (some say 20) have considered legislation including parent trigger language over the past two years, with seven states enacting some version of a parent trigger. And a major motion picture set to release on September 28 chronicles a fictional account of a parent and teacher "pulling the trigger" to improve an elementary school.
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