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The one good thing this film will do is bring discussions of parent trigger laws and the privatization of public schools into the mainstream. I wrote about this on my tiny little blog, Re:education in Baltimore, almost exactly one year ago (see http://editbarry.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/parent-trigger-straight-outta-compton/), and a colorful back and forth with Maryland state senator Bill Ferguson ensued. He is a Democrat who put forward a trigger-like bill called, more palatably, "The Parent Empowerment Act." It's worth noting that Democrats, too, are pushing for parent trigger legislation.