True Parent Empowerment Yes, The Parent Trigger - Cloaked as the Parent Empowerment Bill NO!!!
Today is March 3rd, 2012 and the Florida Senate is about to consider a Parent Trigger Bill.
Senate Bill 1718 is being considered at the same time school grades will go down dramatically as a result of higher passing scores and inclusion of Students with Disabilities and English Language Learners.
I agree with raising the standards and the inclusion policies-- and I do support a Task Force to bring all stakeholders together to consider how these should be done.
Given the dramatic change in passing scores and the inclusion polices, this is not the time to privatize schools who were passing last year and would probably be doing better this year, if the changes were not made.
Parent Empowerment is critical to our kids success, but the Parent Trigger appears to be a not so thinly veiled approach to privatize schools
Senators need to Say No to the Parent Trigger or feel the wrath of Parents, Teachers and Committed Citizens in November
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