The future is now, in Louisiana, if corporate reformers get their way
Louisiana’s Governor is the radical right-winger Bobby Jindal, and its State Superintendent John White, trained
under the Voldemort of education reform, Joel Klein. It has a state board of education whose most recently elected member is the state director of TFA, who ran a campaign funded by billionaire Bloomberg.
under the Voldemort of education reform, Joel Klein. It has a state board of education whose most recently elected member is the state director of TFA, who ran a campaign funded by billionaire Bloomberg.Today, Diane Ravitch wrote about the philosophy behind Jindal and White’s privatization effort, a massive and hurriedly-approved voucher program to throw government funds at private schools, seemingly at random, no matter whether they have a track record in improving outcomes for kids or even facilities in which to put them. As she said, this indicates a disturbing attitude: “We don’t know how to fix the public schools
