systemically failing school, if half the parents sign a petition, they can either fire half of the people and bring in new staff or new leadership, they can turn into a charter school, or they can use this as power to bargain with the special interests that usually make decisions behind closed doors and shut parents out and tell them to go do a bake sale. gretchen: the interesting thing is, the parent trigger law is what s featured in this movie that comes out. although they call it the fail safe law. but same thing about this raw political power. tell me what drawing in the mow halfy desert now. some parents came to us, a rural school in the middle of the mohave desert. it s been failing for a generation and failing because it s the school where all of the ineffective teachers had been dumped in the school district cause you can t fire teachers for the most part. so these parents organized. they got 70% of the parents of their school to sign an historic
teachers with tenure, and now you re seeing more and more democrats saying we ve had it too. yeah, the fissure s starting to emerge on this. megyn: what do they talk about in the film? when over 50% of the parents in a failing school by certain metrics vote for a major overhaul that can vote to convert it to a charter school, one usually run by a group outside the traditional system, that can vote to shut down a school, 51% of the parents. they can vote to, basically, sack half the staff, fire half or all megyn: despite the fact that there s a union that controls the teachers of that school? that s right. there s only about seven states that have the parent trigger laws, but nevertheless, that s what the movie s about. california wuss the first state to pass was the first state to pass, signed by governor schwarzenegger. megyn: if you re a parent and you get 51% of the other parents to vote to shut down the school and start anew, how is that