{"id":18255,"date":"2013-04-29T07:35:10","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T11:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=18255"},"modified":"2013-04-29T09:44:52","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T13:44:52","slug":"with-senate-vote-near-who-supports-the-parent-trigger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/04\/29\/with-senate-vote-near-who-supports-the-parent-trigger\/","title":{"rendered":"With Senate Vote Near, Who Supports The Parent Trigger?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Max Whittaker \/ Reuters\/Landov<\/p>

Questions have been raised about petition signatures submitted by StudentsFirst. The group was founded by former D.C. school chancellor Michelle Rhee and supports parent trigger laws around the country.<\/p><\/div>\n

The session’s most controversial education bill — the parent trigger — hits the Senate floor today.<\/p>\n

The bill would allow the majority of parents at a school earning a failing grade to choose how to restructure the school. The options include closing the school, firing the principal or staff and converting to a charter school.<\/p>\n

But as a vote nears, a petition and video from parent trigger supporters have been questioned.<\/p>\n

Miami Herald<\/em> reporter Kathleen McGrory found a mystery video from a group called Sunshine Parents had been produced by California-based Parent Revolution<\/a>, a leading supporter of parent trigger laws across the country.<\/p>\n

McGrory also found three people listed on a petition submitted by StudentsFirst, another advocacy group supporting the parent trigger, who claimed they had not signed the petition.<\/p>\n

Blogger Bob Sikes jumped on the story and contacted people listed on the petition<\/a>. Some said they did not sign the petition. Sikes also found names repeated and people who live outside of Florida on the petition.<\/p>\n

A Miami Herald survey found 212 of 241 people who responded said they had signed the petition.<\/a><\/p>\n

Opponents of the parent trigger have claimed the bill is being pushed by professional advocacy groups — perhaps funded by the charter school management industry — and doesn’t have the support of actual Florida parents.<\/a><\/p>\n

Today’s vote is expected to be close. Opponents of the parent trigger told us Saturday that they don’t know how the Senate will vote.<\/p>\n

Last year, the bill failed on the session’s final day on a tie vote. Questions about the veracity of petitions or promotional videos might influence a crucial vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The session’s most controversial education bill — the parent trigger — hits the Senate floor today. The bill would allow the majority of parents at a school earning a failing grade to choose how to restructure the school. The options include closing the school, firing the principal or staff and converting to a charter school. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":18257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[785,1109,1069,604],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}