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As the movie “Won’t Back Down” went into its nationwide release last week, parents with kids at Desert Trails Elementary School in Adelanto, Calif. were hard at work selecting a charter school operator to transform their chronically failing school. This momentum follows their court victory in late July when a Superior Court judge upheld the right of the parents to use the “Parent Trigger” law to bring desperately needed educational change for their children.

NBC News, courtesy of The Hechinger Report, has a story today about the powerful reality behind the G-rated Hollywood version of parents organizing to change their children’s future. You can read the article here.