No fresh ideas to be expected from Louisiana. Just the same tired nostrums that were written into federal law nearly 20 years ago.
Schneider wonders if the new board will reappoint State Superintendent John White, a former TFA corps member and a graduate of the unaccredited Broad Academy. White was appointed in 2012 and was a cheerleader for charters and vouchers. Under his leadership, Louisiana has not only stagnated on the authoritative national test called NAEP, it has dropped almost to the rock bottom. One thing we have learned about corporate reformers: they are never dissuaded by failure. They fail and fail, but they never change course.
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It is indeed amazing how after all the slick marketing, paid-off bottom feeders, standardized tests and data mining these fools have nothing, nada – zero credibility. Hopefully as more non-educator elites swarm local ed boards well-meaning teachers and their unions will respond decisively. The raiding of our funding through .1% tax cuts has helped fuel this takeover by non-educator profiteers. Their strategy is cynical, anti-democratic and duplicitous and doomed to fail just like this vile, criminal administration that emboldens them.
Callisto,
You are right.
20 years of “reform,” and nothing to show for it except a huge teacher shortage and massive disruption.
twenty years and three Presidents
Well, they don’t quite have “nothing.”
They have 💰
And as the Beatles sang, 💰’s all you need.
Just ask Bill Gates.
https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-jeffrey-epstein-friendship-swedish-mother-daughter-meeting-2019-10
Money AND power. While the common man is destined to succumb to the gravitational forces of nature, these failures only ever fall up, due to funding and supports from high places.
You have got to be a fool to believe those people want to level the playing field for the majority who don”t have the same advantages, when they epitomize the opportunity gap and are perpetually propped up by it, because of their associations with money and power.
This is capitalism gone wild, where success is an elitist club and nobody makes it there on their own. The self-made man appears to be a fallacy today. I don’t know if it was ever really possible to do that alone, when agency is such a critical component, too. You really do need to have money to make money, but I think success is truly about money AND power.