The organization known as Parent Revolution is attempting to convert the struggling 24th Street Elementary School in Los Angeles into a charter school. The pro-charter organization is pursuing its agenda by utilizing provisions of the state’s “Parent Trigger” law, under which drastic changes can be made to the operation of a public school if more than 50 percent of the student body’s parents agree to the change. No such legislation exists for charter or other privately-run schools.

The law has been invoked on two previous occasions, the first at McKinley Elementary in the city of Compton and the second at Desert Trails Elementary in the Mojave Desert. In each of these two cases, dozens of parents claimed that their petition signatures—required to constitute a majority—were gathered under false pretenses. This resulted in court and school district challenges to the takeover at both schools, with the charter schools emerging successful in the case of Desert Trails.

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