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January 12 was a good day for the parents of 24th Street Elementary School here in Los Angeles.

At 10 am, the Mayor of Los Angeles Antonio Villaraigosa came over to the local park to enthusiastically announce his support for the parents effort to turnaround their failing school through the parent trigger process.

Later that day, the Los Angeles School Board would unanimously approve the parents' petition!

It was a good day for the 24th Street Elementary School community - with the promise of an even better school this coming fall!

This week – on Tuesday, February 12 – the parents of 24th Street Elementary School in Los Angeles achieved an unprecedented victory.

The Los Angeles Unified School District Board voted unanimously to accept the parent’s petition to put into action a “restart model” for their children’s chronically failing school.

The LAUSD Board vote was not only unanimous, it was so uncontroversial that they put it on their "consent calendar" – one giant list of uncontroversial items the Board approves as a group with one easy vote. It was unprecedented – and it was historic.

On Thursday, January 17, more than 150 parents and children associated with the 24th Street Elementary School in the West Adams neighborhood of Los Angeles delivered a "Parent Trigger" petition to the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD).

This is the FIRST time the "Parent Trigger" process has been used in LAUSD, the second largest school district in the nation.

This is their story.

It began with hope.

Four years ago - on this very day of celebration for both the memory of civil rights advocate Martin Luther King, Jr. and the first inauguration of President Barack Obama, we started Parent Revolution as a small nonprofit that wanted to improve a single Los Angeles-area school.