California Parents Succeed In Invoking Trigger Law

The Los Angeles Times (1/10, Watanabe) reports, "Mojave Desert parents made history Tuesday by becoming the first Californians to successfully use the state's landmark parent trigger law to win approval of new charter management for their failing school." Noting that the Adelanto School Board voted this week to "approve the request by parents at Desert Trails Elementary School that a charter school operator take over their campus beginning in August," the Times reports that the move comes at the end of 18 months of legal wrangling. "The successful vote came after two opponents of the parent trigger petition lost the school board election in November and a third opponent left his seat for the Adelanto City Council."