This is funny. Bobby Jindal and John White have ruled the state education system with an iron hand since Jindal won control of the state board of education. They have pushed vouchers and charters on the theory that parents need “choice” and the public schools should have no priority.
Now a Republican legislator has proposed that the voters should choose their state superintendent.
Let’s see how Jindal and White feel about that choice.
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Nobody should be trapped with a failing superintendent. It’s the civil rights issue of our times.
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“While he made clear the bill is not a referendum on current officeholder John White,
Kostelka said it is true he “disagrees with just about everything Mr. White has done.”
Hm-m-m… what’s the national track record on elected State Superintendents? The last thing we need are education leader who echo the mantras of the current political parties whose notions of “reform” are virtually identical.
Now we are talking. Fear is all they understand. A politicians worst nightmare is to not be reelected or appointed and to be left in the cold with a bad reputation. Let us give it to all of them. They do not deserve to say that they represent us when they do not.
The state superintendent’s position was an elected up until the 80’s. We had an individual elected to that office whose behavior became bizarre over his term of office. It was at that time that the governor and the legislature passed legislation to make the office an appointment of the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. However, that was and still continues to be a hoax as the governor greatly influences that decision making. I agree that this office should be an elected one, as the position has become political without an election. Why not have the voters decide? That way the state superintendent will be beholden to the Louisiana voters who send their children to public schools. That individual will have to keep the parents happy about the direction of education, rather than a governor, eight elected BESE members, and the three gubernatorial appointees. The more involved the better.
It seems to me that the more Jindal and many of these reformers talk, the more they contradict their original ideas. They make no sense. They seek expediency at every turn. But along the way, they pick up followers that join them in one of their contradictory statements. They don’t even bother with real excuses.
Looks like the new status quo in Louisiana is failed reform. So who’s wallowing in the status quo now?
it is all flim-flam.
I think I like Kostelka
“Let’s see how Jindal and White feel about that choice.”
Good point.
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