John White is pulling some fast tricks with public school funding in Louisiana. Fortunately the state has smart bloggers who protect the public interest and blow the whistle.
There is no end to White and Jindal’s efforts to transfer public dollars into private hands. He wants to eliminate a requirement that high schools have one guidance counselor for every 450 students. He says they can hire private vendors or whatever. He calls it “flexibility.”
This guy has a creative idea almost every day to strip resources and personnel fro the public schools.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Where are the parents in all this? Don’t they know what is happening in their own schools?
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I wonder if there is some little (very tiny) brain trust that sends out these fun ideas to their fav supes each week….
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Wendy must be so proud of her alumni….master liars and schemers…a requirement for the TFA “leadership” ravaging our public schools. She should hang her head in shame.
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Goal: break collective bargaining, eliminate counselors, drive away teachers, replace with TFA grads for smaller salaries, strip retirement and benefits, test and stress students and teachers, and sap teacher morale, all the while elevate Michelle Rhee and her clones and privatize the schools ??? Anything else ???
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It is incredible to me that they have been able to accomplish such destruction not only here in Louisiana, but the same is happening across our nation. A year ago we stood on the steps of our state Capitol and tried to warn our legislators not to allow this to go through. We were shut out of the Capitol and they ignored us. Now teachers and administrators are retiring in droves. The writing is on the wall. They are setting us up for failure, and the privateers are waiting in the wings. At times, I too, have thought of giving up. Thanks to Diane and my fellow educators here, I have been recharged to stick it out. We just finished a week of high stakes testing. Our jobs hang in the balance, waiting on test scores to come in May. I continue to make my voice heard to legislators and try to convince teachers to speak up. We live on a state where people seem to feel helpless. Waiting for someone else to do something. Afraid of losing their job. I feel sorry for the students who are being subjected to these ridiculous mandates from above, by greedy corporateers. It’s time for us to have the courage to take back our profession and refuse to play the game. Is it too late? How do we do this and not break the law??? How did we get to this point? How did they manage to accomplish such widespread destruction of public education so quickly? How do we turn the tide? I refuse to give in.
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