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Public Schools Do Pre-K Better, Says John White of Louisiana « Diane Ravitch's blog

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Public Schools Do Pre-K Better, Says John White of Louisiana

I just read an astonishing article by John White, the young TFA/Broad superintendent of Louisiana. He says that public school districts do a better job of providing pre-K schooling than other providers. http://www.theadvertiser.com/article/20120507/OPINION/205070301/John-White-Make-important-changes-pre-K-education. This is the same John White who works for Governor Bobby Jindal, the hero of the privatization movement. This is the same John White that travels the state advocating for vouchers and charters so that poor kids in “failing” schools (the majority of children in Louisiana) can flee to private schools. This is the same John White who, when he worked in New York City, used to measure public schools to make room for privately managed charters.
But now he says, for reasons unknown, that district schools do a better job for pre-kindergarten children in