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John White Explains It All. . .
I decided to have a sit down with John White and ask him a few questions that I’m sure are on everyone’s mind with all the recent scandals swirling around his DOE. Much to my surprise he agreed to my request. Here is my interview and his responses. I have a feeling many of you […]
The Grand Accountability Scam – Kill the RSD
April 29, 2013
John White and Bobby Jindal have mixed two smart sounding messages in a way designed to punish people for being poor. It sounds good when you say, “poverty is not an excuse for poor performance.” It sounds good when “we refuse to allow poverty to be an excuse for poor performance.” Who could disagree with […]
The South East School district and a new 5 letter word for apartheid
April 26, 2013
While some of you may discount this as simply a local issue I urge you to stick with me and ask yourself some of the questions I asked myself while doing this story. The particulars of this story are locally very specific, but the impacts of what happens here will have far reaching consequences and implications in […]
John White’s crumbling house of cards – From VAM to worse
April 23, 2013
These days John White might be needing a hug. It appears all the ill-will and poor decisions making he has sown over the past year is coming home to roost on his doorstep, all at the same time. Support the Louisiana Student Privacy Act Recently we called out White for lying to everyone in the state […]
Though it may not show yet, massive progess is being made about the illegal student data sharing thanks to your efforts!
April 15, 2013
Quick Update: I and my colleagues have been working with a number of groups behind the scenes, including school district IT directors and superintendents, Tea Party groups, legislators and BESE members. I hear some folks even contacted David Vitter and this issue got his attention. This illegal data sharing is now on the BESE agenda […]
DeMythdefying LDOE’s Myth-directions and Myth-information about MFP
April 10, 2013
MYTHS VS. FACTS MYTH 1: Public education funding has been cut. FACT: Funding per student will at least remain constant this year. The MFP establishes the total cost of providing an education for a student. Then the formula determines the percentages the state and the local districts will each pay towards that total. When the […]
Bobby Jindal and John White Decide to Experiment on Special Education Students
April 10, 2013
Louisiana Superintendent of Education and Governor Bobby Jindal are experimenting on Louisiana’s Special Education students. This might seem like a harsh assessment, but as far as I can see the only alternative to this is that these guys are straight up stealing state and federal dollars allocated for special education students to fund pet projects, […]
Low test scores are the symptom, not “the Disease”
April 8, 2013
Recently my posting has started dropping off because of some nasty fatigue issues that seemed to come out of nowhere. (Hopefully you haven’t noticed the lull too much, as I have quite a few pieces I’m working on at any given time, and researching others.) Sometimes a recent event or flash of insight drives me […]
Send me your stories and I will share them
April 6, 2013
From time to time I get stories from folks who have had the unpleasant experience of working with the Louisiana Department of Education (LDE) under John White, or Paul Pastorek. If you feel you have a story that needs to be told please contact me and I will do my best to explain your side of […]
Are charter schools being milked by the Louisiana Department of Education?
April 5, 2013
A funny thing happened at a community organizing meeting I attended earlier this week. I was going there to meet with someone who was supposed to help me organize and mobilize an anti-student-data-sharing campaign, although I missed that person I made a few interesting contacts. I also heard a story that made me wonder if […]
May 11, 2013
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