With the impending release of the movie Won’t Back Down, NEPC authors provide a critique of parent trigger laws.
There is so much that is wrong headed about these laws and the NEPC brief does a nice job of touching on the major points: the misconstrual of parent involvement as the primary key to school reform; the representation of the laws as a grassroots movement when it is funded and promoted by think tanks (DfER, Parent Revolution, and StudentsFirst) and foundations (Gates, Broad, Walton Foundations) who are often right wing; and conflates parent control of schools with the promotion of charter schools as the only alternative to public schooling.
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