To La. Gov.-Elect John Bel Edwards: John White Needs to Go ASAP.
Former NYC Chancellor and White’s Mentor, Joel Klein, and John White. Created by a supporter of traditional public education in response to a Tweet by Klein that it is “imperative that he (White) continue the work [in Louisiana].
On November 23, 3015, former Louisiana Department of Education (LDOE) data manager/analyst and fellow blogger, Jason France (AKA Crazy Crawfish), published a post entitled, “How John White Will Use His Own Failures to Sink Governor Elect John Bel Edwards (If he stays on).”
France’s post is worth a full read in its own right. However, in this post, I present excerpts, along with some commentary.
France opens his post with a listing of many of John White’s known deceptions and mismanagement. France includes the following:
- inflated graduate rate
- inflated matriculation rate
- depressed dropout counts
- flipped LEAP and EOC scores to show false improvement in the place of actual decline
- sheltered RSD and charter schools in general from investigation
- dissolved the state-level special ed department and forced LDOE employees to commit fraud on a routine basis by reporting that federal SPED money is being appropriately spent
- illegally shared student data with third-party vendors
- selectively shared data with researchers that support his agenda while withholding such data from independent researchers for years
- cost the state thousands in litigation fees from select data sharing and systematic refusal to honor public records requests
There are more issues that I could add, including White’s now-infamous “muddying To La. Gov.-Elect John Bel Edwards: John White Needs to Go ASAP. | deutsch29:
