Schools Matter: Louisiana Constitution on Trial and Schools on the Chopping Block

Schools Matter: Louisiana Constitution on Trial and Schools on the Chopping Block:

Louisiana Constitution on Trial and Schools on the Chopping Block

by Jim Horn

RIGHT Again Sec. Duncan

Louisiana has the highest number of black student retentions in the nation to go along with the highest black incarceration rate in the U. S.  The private prison industry is worth $182 million a year when beds are full, and "Louisiana's incarceration rate is nearly five times Iran's, 13 times China's and 20 times Germany's."  To say that it is a police state is hardly an exaggeration, and the charter reform schools in poor black areas are run like junior penitentiaries.  

The State hired a new State Superintendent a couple of years back, a former English major