California Educators Debate Proposed "Parent Trigger" Law.

The Los Angeles Times (1/17) reported, "After months of debate and reams of revisions," California "education officials were expected to vote last week to finalize details laying out how" the parent trigger "law is supposed to work. But that vote was postponed because a newly appointed state Board of Education announced that it needed more time to consider the issues. The law is intended to allow parents to petition for dramatic changes at struggling schools." According to the Times, "Several education groups say the previous board gave short shrift to their concerns, instead rushing to approve rules favorable to the charter-school industry. Gov. Jerry Brown replaced a majority of the board in one of his first official acts, installing some members viewed by critics as having more traditional union sympathies."