{"id":18394,"date":"2013-05-03T10:45:19","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T14:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=18394"},"modified":"2013-05-03T11:07:40","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T15:07:40","slug":"how-parent-trigger-opponents-claimed-parentempowerment-as-their-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/05\/03\/how-parent-trigger-opponents-claimed-parentempowerment-as-their-own\/","title":{"rendered":"How Parent Trigger Opponents Claimed #ParentEmpowerment As Their Own"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18395\"  class=\"wp-caption module image left\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/05\/03\/how-parent-trigger-opponents-claimed-parentempowerment-as-their-own\/5-3-condescendingwonka\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18395\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18395\" title=\"5-3 CondescendingWonka\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/05\/5-3-CondescendingWonka-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/05\/5-3-CondescendingWonka-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/05\/5-3-CondescendingWonka.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">@GatorBonBC \/ Twitter<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"> <\/p><\/div>\n<p>Just over 24 hours ago, the Tallahassee-based Foundation for Florida&#8217;s Future sent out an email asking <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/tag\/parent-trigger\/\">parent trigger<\/a> backers to tweet their support.<\/p>\n<p>The bill died in the Florida Senate <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/04\/30\/changes-to-parent-trigger-bill-pave-way-for-expected-passage\/\">earlier this week on a 20-20 tie vote<\/a> &#8212; for the second year in a row.<\/p>\n<p>The bill would allow parents at schools earning a failing grade to choose how to restructure the school, including firing staff and administrators, closing the school or converting to a charter.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the last option that drew criticism. Opponents argued Florida was passing the bill just prior to new standards kicking in which would ensure more Florida school earned a failing grade. The Florida PTA, the NAACP and other advocacy groups fought the bill.<\/p>\n<p>The Foundation, started by former Gov. Jeb Bush, backed the bill along with national advocacy groups StudentsFirst and Parent Revolution.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/05\/02\/bushs-foundation-not-giving-up-on-parent-trigger-bill\/\">Foundation for Florida&#8217;s Future email included pre-written tweets to cut and paste into Twitter posts<\/a>. So how did the campaign turn out? We&#8217;ve put together a Storify, after the jump.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This week the controversial parent trigger bill died in the Florida Senate on a tie vote &#8212; for the second year in a row. Supporters quickly announced they wouldn&#8217;t give up on the bill, but their attempts to fire up an online campaign didn&#8217;t quite work out the way they planned.<\/p>\n<p>This week the controversial parent trigger bill died in the Florida Senate on a tie vote &#8212; for the second year in a row. Supporters quickly announced they wouldn&#8217;t give up on the bill, but their attempts to fire up an online campaign didn&#8217;t quite work out the way they planned.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/storify.com\/johnroconnor\/how-opponents-claimed-a-parent-trigger-campaign-as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week the controversial parent trigger bill died in the Florida Senate on a tie vote &#8212; for the second year in a row. Supporters quickly announced they wouldn&#8217;t give up on the bill, but their attempts to fire up an online campaign didn&#8217;t quite work out the way they planned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":18395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[785,62,1026,1109,1008,1161,604],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18394"}],"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=18394"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18398,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18394\/revisions\/18398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}