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January 12 was a good day for the parents of 24th Street Elementary School here in Los Angeles.

At 10 am, the Mayor of Los Angeles Antonio Villaraigosa came over to the local park to enthusiastically announce his support for the parents effort to turnaround their failing school through the parent trigger process.

Later that day, the Los Angeles School Board would unanimously approve the parents' petition!

It was a good day for the 24th Street Elementary School community - with the promise of an even better school this coming fall!

Esmeralda Fabián-Romero over at La Opinion published a great Spanish-language article about the parents of 24th Street Elementary.

Here's the link: http://parentrevolution.org/padres-logran-cambio.

PADRES LOGRAN CAMBIO

Escuela del sur de LA es la primera de LAUSD en activar Ley Parent Trigger

by Esmeralda Fabián-Romero

This week – on Tuesday, February 12 – the parents of 24th Street Elementary School in Los Angeles achieved an unprecedented victory.

The Los Angeles Unified School District Board voted unanimously to accept the parent’s petition to put into action a “restart model” for their children’s chronically failing school.

The LAUSD Board vote was not only unanimous, it was so uncontroversial that they put it on their "consent calendar" – one giant list of uncontroversial items the Board approves as a group with one easy vote. It was unprecedented – and it was historic.