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Parents Have Their Day in School Reform Battle

Aug 9, 2012 at

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A group of moms in the Mojave Desert town of Adelanto have become the first to successfully use California's "parent trigger" law to take over -- and make-over -- a local grade school. The case marks a new and potentially contentious chapter in the quest to improve under-performing schools.

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Parents Have Their Day in School Reform Battle

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