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It's kind of funny that Michelle Rhee is for parent trigger laws. Her husband, Ken Johnson, is creating a charter high school in Sacramento, pretty much using a "trigger law", though it wasn't called that. In that same school district,there's Hiram Johnson High, which had low scores year after year. Eventually, they replaced the principal (3 years ago), had the bottom 200 kids go to other schools, had particular faculty removed, and asked other faculty to leave. So, did it help? Sure, removing the bottom 200 kids helped that school but HURT the school that they went to, C.K. McClatchy High. Those kids have to go somewhere. Those kids did NOT work harder at their new school. So, blaming anybody but the kids AND their parents is where the blame ought to go. PS One reason the scores were so low at Johnson was because HALF the kids would move away each year, playing "musical schools", and be replaced with an equal number also playing "musical schools". The parents of those kids were frequently unemployed and were kicked out of their housing so they had to move. It's folks like Michelle Rhee who are CLUELESS as to what the REAL problems are and they're just bureaucrats who think teaching is a Business.