Parent trigger: School tests California law that allows takeover via petition

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/parent-trigger-school-tests-california-law-that-allows-takeover-via-petition/2012/02/23/gIQAl9gYtR_story.html

Families in Adelanto, Calif., are trying to become the first in the country to use a trigger law, which allows a majority of parents at a struggling school to force major changes, from firing the principal to reopening it as a charter. All they need to wrest control is to sign a petition.