How John White Will Use His Own Failures to Sink Governor Elect John Bel Edwards (If he stays on)
I have been writing for years about the numerous ways John White has been lying about the “progress” his agenda has brought the state of Louisiana. White has inflated the graduate rate, inflated the matriculation rate, depressed the dropout counts, flipped the LEAP and End of Course test scores to show Louisiana students are doing better, while they are actually doing much worse, sheltered RSD and charter schools from investigations, wiped out the Special Education department and forced his employees to commit fraud to keep their jobs on a routine basis and violated federal laws and policies in regards to funding allocations, shared data illegally with third party vendors and researchers that only favor his agenda while withholding data from independent researchers (for years) costing the state many thousands of dollars in litigation fees. These are just a few of the underhanded and unethical practices John White has engaged in on a regular basis. White even has one of his former lieutenants in place on the State’s board of Elementary and Secondary Education. All of this bodes ill for John Bel if he is not able to remove John White promptly, and properly audit, recalculate and re-report the previous years’ fraudulently prepared education data.
John White has quietly amassed an enormous power base in Louisiana. He has legislators, superintendents, super Pacs, LABI (Louisiana Association of Business and Industry run by a Grigsby figurehead), APEL a pseudo teachers union run by a LABI/Grigsby promoted figurehead, The Times Picayune editorial board, The Advocate editorial board and management, Teach for America (who also has a BESE member, Kira Orange Jones that will support White unquestioningly), Stand for Children (run by a former White/LDOE staffer) ,CABL, BAEO (run by a former White/LDOE staffer), DFER (Democrats for Education Reform), and Lane Grigsby in his back pocket. That’s just to name of few of his instate supporter power players and organizations.
White also has the ability to draw down millions of dollars from out of state ed reform minded billionaires to wage war on John Bel Edwards on his behalf. Billionaires like Michael Bloomberg, Eli Broad, Jim and Alice Walton, that spent How John White Will Use His Own Failures to Sink Governor Elect John Bel Edwards (If he stays on) | Crazy Crawfish: