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Louisiana Charter School Audit Reveals Faux-Accountability
Reblogged from deutsch29: In October 2012, I sent the following email to Louisiana Legislative Auditor Daryl Purpera requesting a performance audit of Louisiana's charter schools. I did so in response to having read the US Department of Education's audit of charters in Arizona, California, and Florida: request for La. charter schools audit From: Mercedes Schneider […]
Reports surface that DOE Superintendent John White is out the door for Washington to further validate Peter Principle
May 23, 2013
Reblogged from Louisiana Voice: In the late ‘60s psychologist Dr. Laurence J. Peter advanced what became known as the Peter Principle which said, in effect, that “In a hierarchically-structured administration, people tend to be promoted up to their level of incompetence.” Put another way: “The cream rises until it sours.” A good case in point, […]
LA and the Recovery School District approach (SB1718): A P.T. Barnum Circus
May 21, 2013
Reblogged from Cloaking Inequity: I suspect P.T. Barnum would be proud of the showmanship eminating from Louisiana— an educational policy circus. The Recovery School District has been acclaimed as “a game changer for New Orleans” and very likely today be up for a vote in the Texas House in Senate Bill 1718— and perhaps soon in […]
More sordid details emerging in apparent fraudulent Course Choice registrations in three northwest Louisiana parishes
May 21, 2013
Reblogged from Louisiana Voice: It’s not always writer’s block when you have trouble putting your thoughts into something resembling comprehensible form. In the case of the Louisiana Department of Education’s (DOE) Course Choice program, the players are so intertwined as to be considered downright incestuous. It’s not enough that the State Supreme Court has ruled […]
Bobby Jindal, the Seabaugh Solution and MFP
May 16, 2013
When I first heard about the “Seabaugh Solution,” a term John White invented to describe a request by legislator Alan Seabaugh to rig the entire teacher evaluation system to favor three teachers that taught at his daughter’s school in Shreveport, something didn’t quite make sense to me. Why would John White risk everything to do […]
DOE run like a snow cone stand, but Course Choice fraudulent enrollments looking like a major scandal
May 16, 2013
Reblogged from Louisiana Voice: Could it possibly get any worse for Louisiana Superintendent of Education John White? For that matter, could the State of Louisiana possibly do any worse than John White as education superintendent? Good questions both. The answers are, in order: That remains to be seen, and Probably not. There are so many […]
Course Choice provider who enrolled 1100 students without their knowledge tied to Bush, Romney, Tex. dropout scandal
May 16, 2013
Reblogged from Louisiana Voice: More than 1100 students in the parishes of Caddo and Webster have signed up for course choice programs with a provider whose chairman with close ties to former President George W. Bush and 2012 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. An outfit named FastPath Learning of Austin, Texas, has somehow managed to […]
The pieces are all starting to come together. . .and the picture ain’t good
May 13, 2013
Thanks to Lefty, Dave Lefkowith, John White’s data scam is starting to take on a clearer shape. I just got another document from good ole Lefty from another new vendor called Cambium Education and Sopris Learning. It appears John White is planning to provide all of our student data to yet another inBloom-like vendor for DIBLELS data. This […]
Break out the hip waders: Rep. Seabaugh's surreptitious involvement in VAM 'fix' scheme gets deeper and deeper
May 13, 2013
Reblogged from Louisiana Voice: More information about the 14-minute telephone conversation between Louisiana Superintendent of Education John White and State Rep. Alan Seabaugh (R-Shreveport) is emerging that reveals a concerted but complicated effort by White to placate Seabaugh’s demand that evaluation scores be adjusted upward for three teachers at South Highlands Elementary School. Even as […]
I Am Louisiana Course Choice, And I Enroll Without Parental Consent
May 13, 2013
Reblogged from deutsch29: There's money to be made in education, and I am here to get mine. I am a Louisiana Course Choice provider. Despite the initial, November 2012 state ruling of unconstitutionality regarding my receiving MFP funding for offering Course Choice, and despite the fact that Jindal and White have no other BESE-approved plan […]
May 23, 2013
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