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Schools for the corporate era

Gov. Jindal has reshaped Louisiana's public education system based on ALEC's blueprints

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Gov. Bobby Jindal (Credit: AP/Carolyn Kaster)
This piece originally appeared on Colorlines.com.
Gov. Bobby Jindal has remade the Louisiana public schools system with impressive speed over the past legislative session. Last week, he signed into law a suite of landmark reform bills that will likely change the direction of public education in Louisiana forever. But not all change is good, and critics say both Jindal’s agenda and the strategy to move it come right from the playbook of conservative advocacy group ALEC, in an effort to revive Jindal’s national political profile.
Colorlines.comLouisiana is now home to the nation’s most expansive school voucher program. Charter school authorization powers have been broadened. And teacher tenure policies have been radically transformed. Louisiana already had something of a reputation as a radical-reform state, thanks to the post-Katrina educational