Progressive Mayors Across the Country Endorse Parent Empowerment

I wanted to share with you some great news – the U.S. Conference of Mayors endorsed Parent Trigger over the weekend with a unanimous vote! The U.S. Conference of Mayors is the official organization that represents cities with more than 30,000 people in its boundaries – over 1300 cities in total! This is a big moment for Parent Trigger and the parent empowerment movement.


Check out yesterday’s Reuters article on this big endorsement HERE!


LA Times: Stop the Bullying

We launched Parent Revolution just over three years ago on the weekend of President Obama's historic inauguration, because we felt as though his campaign was a proof point that community organizing and grassroots movements can lead to transformative change.

Great LA Times column on our court case

I wanted to make sure you saw Jim Newton's column in today's LA Times about the historic Desert Trails Parent Trigger court case happening right now.

Click here to read Jim Newton's column from today's LA Times

Bipartisan Louisiana Parent Trigger to be signed into law TOMORROW!

TOMORROW, Gov. Bobby Jindal is expected to sign a bi-partisan, omnibus education reform bill that includes America’s fourth Parent Trigger law. This law would give Louisiana parents the historic right to transform their failing schools through community organizing. Parent Trigger passed through the state legislature with bipartisan support and is expected to go into effect January 1, 2013.

More details to follow but in the meantime, check out this article in The Louisiana's Advocate: http://bit.ly/yNNfwB

DTPU's Right to Petition

Just last week, parents went to court and filed a writ demanding that the District respect their right to petition and their children’s right to a quality education. These aren’t just the legal rights but they are outlined in the federal Constitution and the California Constitution and the foundation of our rights.

The 50% Debate

As we talked about earlier, parents will win in court because not only did the District deny the parents’ petitions based on illegal verification tactics and a fraudulent “rescission” campaign, but they also denied the parents, yet again, after agreeing that the parents were well over 50%.

Math Quiz

At the District’s last board meeting, we have to admit: we were confused. It seems that at no point did the District actually announce how many petitions were verifiable. Later, we read news reports that the district was claiming that the parents were 20 signatures below 50%, but the district’s math just doesn’t add up.

Confused? So are we. Check out this convenient math sheet to help you understand what went wrong in the District’s math calculations.

Mistakes or Forgery?

While it took the District 40 full days to compile reasons to deny the parents’ petitions, it took Desert Trails Parent Union (DTPU) leaders less than five days to find incontrovertible evidence of forgery.

Desert Trails' Culture of Failure

This week, we’ve been talking a lot about the different parts of the parents’ lawsuit. In addition to demanding that the district verify their rightful majority, parents are also demanding that the district provide their children with a quality education as guaranteed by the California Constitution.

No Signature on File, No Service.

On February 21, rather than verifying the signatures representing an overwhelming majority of parents - 70% - they decided, instead, to rely on forgeries (more on that later) and discount the voices of parents representing 25 kids at Desert Trails Elementary school simply because their spouse had signed District documents such as emergency cards.

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