Louisiana’s Voucher Program Featured on New Orleans Public Radio for the Failure It Is
Louisiana’s school voucher program has received yet another hefty dose of realistic attention for the utter failure that it is.
There have been local articles calling out the failure of the program in the past (I reference a number of such articles in this July 2016 post), but this May 07, 2019, extensive piece by WWNO New Orleans Public Radio, entitled, “The Cost of Choice: How Louisiana’s Voucher Program Steered Families into D and F Private Schools,” lays bare Louisiana’s school voucher program to such a degree that even “State Education Superintendent John White declined repeated requests for an interview.”
John White
Multiple local news outlets were involved in the investigation:
‘The Cost of Choice’ is the result of a reporting collaboration between NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune, WVUE Fox 8 News, WWNO and Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting.
Some summary highlights from the article, including Betsy DeVos’ involvement:
Politicians promised the Louisiana Scholarship Program would offer low-income students a way out of bad public schools. Instead, the program steered families into low-performing private schools with little oversight.Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal beamed with pride in April 2012, as he signed into law one of the most sweeping school choice expansions in the nation.The law was lauded by the American Federation for Children, then chaired by future Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, and other school choice advocates. Like Jindal, they said it would free countless lower-income children from the worst public schools by allowing them to use CONTINUE READING: Louisiana’s Voucher Program Featured on New Orleans Public Radio for the Failure It Is | deutsch29