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Oops, John White did it again. (He lost our children.)
John White is trying very hard to keep data from the general public and researchers. He even passed a number of edicts when he first came to DOE that forbade LDE staff from communicating with school districts via any method other than a vetted weekly or bi-weekly newsletter. I’ve been told by numerous data coordinators […]
Just How Many Murders Does it Take in Louisiana to Be Classified a “Persistently Dangerous School?”
September 17, 2012
This is actually a trick question. According to the Unsafe Schools section 343 of Bulletin 741, a school can have 100% of its student body expelled for murdering each other and the school will not be classified as dangerous, let alone persistently dangerous. §343. Unsafe Schools [. . . B. Students attending a school that has been identified as […]
Louisiana’s Lacking Accountability System
March 25, 2012
Most people probably haven’t heard about Louisiana’s School Accountability System, but many Louisianian natives with children of or near school age have probably heard about schools being assigned letter grades or stars “*” to represent the overall quality of a school. What most of those people don’t know is that the state and appointed officials […]
November 17, 2012
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