McKinley parents speak out against shredding of their historic petitions

Courageous parents at McKinley Elementary in Compton spent months of organizing, ultimately mobilizing over 63% of their fellow parents to legitimately standing up for change through the Parent Trigger process as outlined in state law. Compton Unified has decided that they'd prefer to simply disenfranchise parents, throw out the entire results of that process, and just invent their own new law, requiring parents to jump through an impossible series of hoops for their signature to count in the Parent Trigger process. With less than a week's notice, parents are supposed to show up at the school (where harassment has already occurred), during very limited hours on only two days, speak with district officials, sign a second petition created by district officials, AND display "official photo identification" before being allowed to do any of this.

It appears that Compton Unified thinks that it should be harder to sign a Parent Trigger petition than to vote for president of the United States.

As parents announced at this press conference, they will not stand for such blatantly illegal attempts to disenfranchise them, and are demanding the district simply verify and approve their petitions with the information they already have, as required by law.

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• parent trigger
• mckinley
• compton unified

[robertmike57]

@proudmckinleyparent Wow, just saw Linda Serrato of parentrevolution on RT with Hartmann. Coercion, lack of comprehension...figured that there was some fucked up shit Hartmann didn't ask about, and the vid description here stinks like shit. Charter Schools are basically shit, Hartmann did an excellent job explaining why they usually suck. Got to wonder what's in it for Serrato for all of this.

[proudmckinleyparent]

Of course this requirement by the district was needed to verify how many of those parents really understood what they were signing, and how many signed under the corrupt practices that they implemented.

By the way, many children, my son included, were harrassed by parent revolution. How dare these people commit such fraud and then turn around and accuse the staff of doing exactly what they did? SHAME ON PARENT REVOLUTION FOR LIES!!!

[proudmckinleyparent]

The reason why these parents were told that they needed to verifty their signatures along with their ID's is because of the fraud committed by Parent Revolution. Here are some facts that Parent Revolution won't tell you. We were threatened with deportation unless we sign the Parent Revolution petition. We were told to sign more than once (illegal), More than one adult were asked to sign at many households, a violation of the law. Some people had the petition faxed to Mexico to sign.

[proudmckinleyparent]

You big liars!!! Ample time was given time to verify their signature, but they opted to boycott the verification process. No one ever said anything about destroying the petitions at all. THis is a lie, just like many that parent revolution has devised. Parent Revolution committed many irregularities that would have come up if they showed up. That is why they blocked the process.

[rdsathene]

Ben Austin of Parent Revolution was recently investigated for serious conflict of interest (Case # 2010-36) by the Los Angeles City Ethics Commission for nearly a year. Word on the street was that fellow privatization pusher Mayor Villaraigosa made a phone call and the investigation was swept under the rug.