Judge May Toss Compton Parent Petition Over Missing Date Box
COMPTON, Calif. (AP) — A judge says he plans to throw out the parent petition to force a charter conversion at a low-performing Compton elementary school because of a missing date box.
In a tentative ruling issued Friday, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Anthony Mohr said the absence of dates documenting when the 265 parents signed the petition was "fatal."
Mohr said he will hear more arguments on the case next month, but said he agreed with the Compton Unified School District that dates on signatures are crucial.
Parent Revolution, which organized the petition campaign, called the judge's opinion "deeply troubling."
A district spokesman did not immediately return a request for comment.
The petition was the first filed under California's so-called "parent trigger" law, which allows parents to demand radical change at underperforming schools.
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