Los Angeles Times Criticizes California Parent Trigger Law

The Los Angeles Times (3/21) editorializes that the effort to invoke California's parent trigger law in the Adelanto School District has "ended disappointingly for the pro-reform forces," in a similar scenario to the first case of parents' attempting to use the law in Compton. "Although they submitted the signatures of 70% of the parents at Desert Trails Elementary School - the law requires 50% - to force a switch to a charter school, enough parents later rescinded their signatures that the petition came up 16 names short." The Times points to "troubling evidence" of fraud on the part of anti-trigger forces in the district, adding, "all this trouble with delays and rescinded signatures could have been avoided if the parent trigger weren't the result of a rushed, badly written law and poorly crafted regulations."