Mercedes Schneider summarizes what happened to education bills in the Louisiana legislature this session.
The good news is that the legislature is no longer rolling over for Jindal.
Some of the damage of last year was undone by the courts and the legislature.
Most surprising was the enactment of a “reverse parent trigger,” allowing charter parents to return their school to the district.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
A reverse “trigger law”!! It’s a good start. Would be better if they rescind it.
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The reverse trigger passage is a major triumph for its admission that RSD is not a national model. So many states see New Orleans as a miracle city for it’s state takeover of schools, but it is and has always been a mess.
I look forward to seeing what schools exit state control. NOLA has active parent and student groups advocating for their schools. I’m sure they are happy about the reverse trigger legislation.
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I love it! “Integrity, high standards, resources,…” OMG has Merrow ever interviewed any charter school teachers???? Please, would someone in the media world actually do some investigative reporting. You will find a gold mine on the fleecing of America.
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Do people not know, or have they forgotten, that NOLA schools “reformed” because so much of the poverty stricken population of NOLA could not / did not return after Hurricane Katrina? It’s easy to post higher test performance when you are not testing the same group of kids as before.
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There is no higher test performance in state-run RSD. RSD-NO received a D. Orleans Parish Schools received an A.
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This Reverse Parent Trigger is great. It is the antidote to the Recovery School District (RSD). At least this sets a limit on their sham. It looks like blowback is coming in Louisiana. Refreshing. The RSD is and always has been a bad joke on New Orleans and the nation as a whole. Nothing like launching an on the shelf plan while people are in a state of total tragedy as they did with this one in New Orleans.
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There were some victories this session, no doubt. I testified at one House Ed. Committee hearing about Compass and the insanities it has wrought on teachers and administrators alike. We are beginning to feel the tide turn, but too late for my little school, its children, and faculty. We will be officially closed as of June 28th, even though our test results from this spring show that we will be above AYP. Who knows what we could have done with a third year?
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