Steve Monaghan Sues Bobby Jindal, Draws Fire From School Reform Folks
It was a surprise neither that the Louisiana Federation of Teachers would sue the state over the educational reform package passed in the recently-completed legislative session nor that the suit would come within days of that sessionâs end.
So when the LFT launched their latest attack on behalf of the status quo today, the political enemies of its president Steve Monaghan were already locked and loaded.
Monaghanâs suit contains several allegations, the most important of which being one the educrats and their allies in the legislature made repeatedly during the legislative session; namely that itâs unconstitutional to fund the stateâs new school voucher program through the Minimum Foundation Program, as the MFP can only fund public schoolsâŠ
The Constitution requires the state school board to âannually develop and adopt a formula which shall be