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A little over a year ago we wrote about a maddening case in Anaheim, California. In 2015, a group of elementary school parents sought to take advantage of California's Parent Empowerment Act (the "parent trigger") to force the Anaheim City School District to convert their children's continually failing school into an independently operated charter ...

Last year, PLF and Parent Revolution joined forces to support a group of elementary school parents who were sued by the Anaheim school district. What did the parents do to warrant legal action? As we previously discussed, they invoked California's Parent Empowerment Act, also known as the "parent trigger," and petitioned to convert Palm Lane Elemen ...

Today, PLF, along with Parent Revolution, filed this amicus brief in the California Court of Appeal in the case of Anaheim City School District v. Cecilia Ochoa. At issue in the case is whether California's Parent Empowerment Act--also known as the "parent trigger"--applied to Palm Lane Elementary School in Anaheim during the 2013-14 school year. P ...

Recognizing the need to give parents more control over improving their children's schools, the California Legislature passed--and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed--the Parent Empowerment Act, also known as the "Parent Trigger," in 2010. The first such law in existence, the Act provides a mechanism for parents to force changes at their children's f ...

Good news on the school choice front.  Thanks to the parent trigger law passed by the state legislature in 2010, students of a failing school in downtown Los Angeles -- 24th Street Elementary -- will have the opportunity to attend a charter school in the near future. As the L.A. Times explains, the trigger law allows parents to petition to overhaul ...