Why Florida’s parent trigger bill failed in state Senate - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post: "The answer is that Florida parents didn’t want it, because they didn’t see it as a parent empowerment bill. Instead, they thought that the bill, known as the “parent trigger,” would lead to the takeover of public schools by for-profit charter management companies and other corporate interests.
Not a single major Florida parent organization supported the bill, including the PTA, which is what Detert was referring to during debate on the hotly contested legislation before the 20 to 20 vote effectively killed it. Detert has supported many Republican school reforms opposed by Democrats in Florida, but this act went too far for her.
“The charter people will walk right in and take over our buildings … and I don’t know how you’re going to explain that to our taxpayers,” she said, according to the Orlando Sentinel."
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