Louisiana deserves our attention because it is an extreme example of the corporate reform agenda at work.
As Reuters put it, the “reform” agenda targets the very existence of public education. The radical goal of Governor Bobby Jindal is privatization. Wiping out the teaching profession is a strategy to turn teachers into a compliant workforce, unable to challenge the privatization plan.
Testifying before the state senate education committee, a researcher pointed out another prong of the governor’s strategy: the distortion of data to bloat claims of success. Many researchers have
complained that the state scrubbed the data from its website that was once available to analyze test scores. Herb Bassett testified:
“My subsequent research revealed deceit, distortion, manipulation of scores and data suppression.”
Hiding, distorting, and suppressing data. Not good. Not good at all.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Lies, lies and more lies along with spin and smoke and mirrors is all they know. Now in Louisiana they are getting blowback. How wonderful. Keep it up. Stop them.
#stopcommoncore
Whaen everything else fails…..I mean now that everything has failed, try systemic change. Taking kids from where they are with out penalty of failure into oblivion and teach kids what’s real. Don’t have them memorize things they can google up in 10 seconds.
Yes, they are getting blowback. Their house of cards is starting to crumble. We have excellent bloggers in Louisiana and several underground type internet newspapers. People are waking up. Our Legislature is even waking up and fighting back on all of this. Jindal is a little martinet. It’s “off with your head” if you cross him. He now has a 30% approval rating and the Legislature is eying that I’m sure. Hurray! We don’t want this. By the way, the Recovery School District put under the State since Katrina and mostly charters after 6-7 years has mostly F’s and some D’s, I think 2 C’s and 1 B. Jindal touts the RSD as “The New Orleans Miracle” and is trying to sell it to other states. It is a travesty and a sham. The charters have done no better than the public schools before them. Now that things are starting to turn our way, it is interesting to watch.
I’ve been depressed recently and I so want Jindal to run for POTUS as the laughter will surely cure me! If I don’t die from it. Gotta hand it to Jindal though, it was a heavy lift, but he has made Louisiana the single most corrupt state in the nation, winning out over some very stiff competition in many other places.
I think the folks in Illinois would argue for their state. How many former governors are now in jail???