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General, is designed to serve the interests of powerful adults, powerful adult special interests at the expense of parents, kids, and the rest of us. and that if we really intend to change things, to make education serve the interests of children not as a political slogan or sound bite, but as a reality, the only way we're going to do that is stop playing on the other side's home turf where lobbyists and political action committees buy influence and transfer raw political power to parents because parents are the only ones who only care about kids. everyone cares about kids. but parents only ca...

Tired of the gridlock in washington. i think after this election is over, we have to find a way to come together. and it seems obvious to me that we would come together over an issue that there is a real possibility of coming to agreement on and i think education reform is that. >> gretchen: everyone is pretty much affected by it. you either pay taxes for it or you have kids in the system. this movie talks about this parent trigger law. how does that -- what is it and how does it give power back to the parents? >> what the parent trigger allows for is that if the parent -- 50% or more of the p...

Up in the officer's garage. he is being questioned and forced to surrender his gun and badge. the 25-year-old victim was snatched off the street a few days ago on july 26. the friend got calls demanding a ransom. and the calls, they say, were reportedly traced to johnson's hoax. four men have so far reportedly been charged including one who lives in the same building. johnson has not yet been charged. >>heather: a story for every parent upset with their children's school. parents in a small california community are the first-in-the-nation to exercise the so-called "parent trigger," giving them...

Doreen, you have a child at this school? >> yes i do. jenna: how did this even start? just take us back to the beginning when you decided to explore this parent trigger. >> well, i've been an active parent at the school. i volunteer as pta i was on school council. i addressed the board many times with the issues that were happening at the school, the low performance, low academic qualities of the school and i never got a solution. the only solution that they ever offered me was if i didn't like the school or the staff there, i should just change my child from that school. i thought about it, a...

Wherever they come from, whatever their native language happens to be. jon: in l.a. for instance, they print ballots in seven different languages. congressman steve king, we'll keep an eye on this bill and see if it actually comes to the floor in this session. >> thank you, jon. jenna: if you're unhappy with your child's education this next story could be very important to you. a major legal victory with nationwide implications from parents simply fed up with failing schools. in california, a group of parents are becoming the nation's first to exercise the parent trigger. it is a law which all...