Since Bobby Jindal and his loyal henchman John White started their war against Louisiana’s public schools and their teachers, the judicial system has proved to be the best line of defense for defenders of the public interest.
Jindal’s two major pieces of legislation were declared unconstitutional by the courts. One ruled that it was illegal to take money away from public school funding to pay for vouchers or private vendors (called “course choice”). Another declared the omnibus anti-teacher law unconstitutional on procedural grounds.
Thus far, the legislature appears less willing to bow to Jindal’s demands to renew his vendetta, maybe because his poll ratings have dropped into the 30s.
Here, Mercedes Schneider describes the multiple lawsuits filed against John White and the Louisiana Department of Education.
White simply won’t release the data that researchers use to analyze school performance (without student names) yet is more than willing to share confidential student data with inBloom, the Gates-Murdoch collaboration.
As usual, Schneider nails the key issues.
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Looks like Bobby J and J-Why are slipping in popularity. The only thing less popular than unsuccessful govenment policies and actions are hidden policies and actions. It doesn’t pay to be sneaky.
Great report on the legal situation and the crazy actions by those in Louisiana trying to hide the mess they made after Katrina. They had to have had this plan on the shelf just waiting for a tragedy to happen to be able to rapidly implement it while everyone was working on the hurricane and the cleanup. No way could they have made this plan after the hurricane. If it takes lawsuits “So be it.” Put fear into them. This is all people like that understand. They have no right to ruin our youth and the future. If we can put people in jail for stealing pizza’s and bicycles why not for this massive destruction and law breaking?