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(inaudible) she will be safe. she will be able to apply to colleges. >> for the first time ever, the parent trigger law gives political power to a mother's love. >>reporter: this in effect in 20 states allows parents at underperforming schools to fire the entire staff in a majority sign petitions to do so. >> what is due to my child and every other child in this high school district is a right, a right, to quality education. >> parents at four failing california schools filed to reclaim their school under the law. only one school succeeded overcoming opposition from the school board, the teach...

No word on whether anybody was hurt. they are still investigating . he didn't get away. they never get away. first time in the united states. a group much parents in california are frustrated by the failing school ask they take over the school ask thanks to a little known and powerful law. they explain what is giving those parents power to improve the kid's education. >> yes, we can. >> last week. parents made history. i wanted her to have a shot at something good. she is going to be positive. >> for the first time ever, parent trigger law gives raw political power to a mother's love for her o...

Pass basic proficiency tests in reading and writing. that means three out of four that graduate can't read, can't write, can't do basic math that is where the school is right now. that is where the parent trigger law applies. it only applies to the schools lowest in the state. people said, hey, why dormt you just move? why not take the easy way out? you say you didn't want to. so what's next now? now that you have some control through this parent union you formed, what are you going to do to try to improve the school? >> well, we're going to be announcing our next steps later on this week and ...

gunning down 16 afghan men, women and children but the u.s. commander of multinational forces promises a full investigation by u.s. military authorities under u.s. law. and the u.s. defense secretary says that the death penalty is a possibility. leon panetta is in afghanistan now. all u.s. forces pass through there when they leave and enter afghanistan and told reporters and i told, war is hell and terrible events like this one on sunday are going to take place. we'll get live reports from the pentagon and the afghan capital moments from now. super tuesday, it's not not. what hap...

Education reform. you've been fighting the good fight. howard dean, reverend al has been hanging out with newt gingrich. >> well, there's that. >> over the past several years. >> got to do what you got to do. >> a lot of people are onboard with education reform. but are we making any progress? >> well, we are making some progress. if you look at what's happened over the last couple of years, we've had many, many more states taking on important issues like getting rid of last-in, first-out policies, putting in place important teacher evaluation systems that are rigorous that would reward the be...