At issue is statute allowing parents to seek changes at certain schools
A dispute has erupted over how education labor groups characterize a California law that enables parents to force changes at schools.
Parent organizers from San Diego and Lynwood on Wednesday rallied against what they called inaccurate and misleading union dispatches to teachers on the controversial parent trigger law, which allows parents at low-performing schools to force their campus to convert to a charter and hire new teachers, or change its administration.
Some union leaders reject the claim and say they will continue to warn teachers about a “pro-charter law” they believe threatens to privatize public education. It’s a political dispute unrelated to parent collaboration efforts, labor representatives say.
Members of the nonprofit Parent Revolution, Lynwood’s “parent union,” and San Diego’s Up for Ed said they gathered to “lay out a pattern of harassment” by California Teachers Association and the American Federation of Teachers — and their affiliates — in Lynwood, part of a region in southeast Los Angeles County that has become the epicenter of California’s parent trigger movement.
The parents want union leaders to retract the articles published in their newsletters and issue new communication to members that offer unbiased news about the law.
In the October 11 issue of The Advocate, the newsletter of the San Diego Education Association, an article refers the trigger law as “Fake Democracy,” that “threatens real parent input.” The article also accuses Parent Revolution of “prey(ing) on unsuspecting parents.” The publication is written for some 7,000 teachers working in the San Diego Unified School District.
via Parent activists vs. unions over school law | UTSanDiego.com.
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