Louisiana Educator: Basic Flaws in Education Reform

Louisiana Educator: Basic Flaws in Education Reform:

Basic Flaws in Education Reform

by Michael Deshotels

Several local and regional newspapers around the state are editorializing about what the editors perceive as possible flaws in the Jindal education reform package. In addition, some local superintendents and other long time educators are pointing out basic flaws in the plan. Our readers can get a good overview of concerns of educators and non-educators by reviewing the following recent articles from around the state:

• Problems with Jindal's plan; A letter to the editor of the local Houma news
• Grade All Schools; From the Monroe Newsstar
• Louisiana Should be Shown Proof That Private Schools Are Worth It; An editorial comment by Jarvis DeBerry writing for Nola.com
• Evangeline Parish School Board voices concern about changes: From the Ville Platte Acadian Press
• Define goals of the voucher program; An editorial of the Lafayette Advertiser

Governor Jindal's education reform plan may have been well thought out politically; its like the "shock and awe"