{"id":5116,"date":"2012-02-21T10:51:43","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T15:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=5116"},"modified":"2012-02-21T10:51:43","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T15:51:43","slug":"parent-trigger-now-playing-in-the-legislature-coming-soon-to-theaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/02\/21\/parent-trigger-now-playing-in-the-legislature-coming-soon-to-theaters\/","title":{"rendered":"Parent Trigger Now Playing In The Legislature, Coming Soon To Theaters"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kerry Hayes \/ 20th Century Fox<\/p>

Viola Davis, left, is a teacher and Maggie Gyllenhaal is a parent in a fictionalized movie about school restructuring.<\/p><\/div>\n

The parent trigger<\/a> will be the next education issue to receive the Hollywood treatment later this year.<\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/em> reports<\/a> producers are planning a September release for “Won’t Back Down,” a fictional dramatization of a campaign to restructure a low-performing Pennsylvania school. The movie follows on the success of charter school documentary “Waiting for Superman.”<\/p>\n

The movie stars Maggie Gyllenhaal as a frustrated parent and Viola Davis as a teacher who joins Gyllenhaal’s effort.<\/p>\n

The movie will be produced by Walden Media, backed by conservative-leaning billionaire Phillip Anschutz. A September release is scheduled.<\/p>\n

Florida is one of many states weighing whether to adopt a parent trigger, which allows the majority of parents in a low-performing school to choose how to restructure a school — even against the objection of teachers, administrators or school boards.<\/p>\n

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For an explanation of the proposed Florida law, know as “Parent Empowerment in Education,” click here<\/a> and here<\/a>. The bill is on the floor in the House and waiting on a committee vote in the Senate.<\/p>\n

Florida-based parent groups, such as Fund Education Now<\/a>, and the PTA oppose the bill. They argued at a Tallahassee hearing last week that the parent trigger is being pushed by national lobbying groups such as California-based Parent Revolution and Students First.<\/p>\n

The Florida Chamber of Commerce and the Foundation for Florida’s Future also support the bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The parent trigger will be the next education issue to receive the Hollywood treatment later this year. The New York Times reports producers are planning a September release for “Won’t Back Down,” a fictional dramatization of a campaign to restructure a low-performing Pennsylvania school. The movie follows on the success of charter school documentary “Waiting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[1105,287,288,1109,1008],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5116"}],"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=5116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5122,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5116\/revisions\/5122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}