CA Gov. Brown, school administrators & teacher unions rig the system to help the adults who run it rather than the children to be educated. Who will speak up for the children & parents in Compton, California?

Some schools do a terrible job of educating their children. In failing schools in California parents of children in failing schools could exercise “parent trigger”. Parent trigger allowed parents to replace the public school system with a charter school.

Now the powers that protect the adults that run the public schools seek to crush parent trigger.

“Parent trigger” school reform was undermined by Governor Jerry Brown on his first day of office, He replaced seven reform members of the state board of education with UNION ALLIES including a lobbyist for the California Teachers Association. The new board plans to re-write the rules that govern the parent trigger law.

Assemblywoman Julia Brownley and state schools chief Tom Torlakson, both voted against parent trigger last year, plan to amend the law. Expect them to work for appeal of the parent trigger law.

When parents in Compton, CA exercised the parent trigger law the teachers urged parents to rescind their petitions Then, when that did not work, the district required parents to bring official photo identification knowing that some are illegal immigrants. A judge issued a temporary restraining order stopping the verification plan. In response the school administrations declared all petitions disqualified based on technicalities — some petitions were not stapled and some legal code numbers were mistyped.

Think Obama might speak up for the children in Compton, CA? Doubtful. Remember what happened to the charter schools in Washington D.C. — that Obama refused funding to continue even though they were successful? There’s a case where a black President does not step up to continue a success story for poor, black urban students. Why might that be? Obama supports the teacher unions because he and the Democrat Party get money from their dues. Money which pays for his re-election.

The struggle by the public sector unions in Wisconsin part and parcel to what the public schools and unions are doing in California. The public sector unions want to keep control.

What can the public do? Connect with organizations that work for responsible change. For example, one organization to join is Ask Heritage. Join and work for responsible government.

Go to www.askheritage.org and take their latest quiz. It is fun and you will learn important information. For example, did you know that 1 in 5 persons in the U.S. is entirely dependent on the rest of us? Our system is creating dependency and that is not healthy.