Parent power.

• Position: STATELINE - Brief article

The California Board of Education has issued regulations clarifying its first-in-the-nation "Parent Trigger" law that gives parents the right to petition for new staff and programs at their children's schools. The Legislature passed the law last year, and its first year in effect proved volatile. Parents at one school circulated petitions to oust the school staff and convert the building into an independently run, publicly financed charter school, which brought about lawsuits and charges of harassment. The new regulations...