Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Democurmudgeon: Louisiana Voucher School, with no facilities and teachers, is approved to take 315 students.

Democurmudgeon: Louisiana Voucher School, with no facilities and teachers, is approved to take 315 students.:


Louisiana Voucher School, with no facilities and teachers, is approved to take 315 students.

Voucher School Meets Profit Target 
In addition to the title above, parents are left with a useless voucher. Here's the incredible story:
TownTalk: Emails between Louisiana Education Superintendent John C. White, Gov. Bobby Jindal's spokesman Kyle Plotkin and Jindal policy adviser Stafford Palmieri show White devising a scheme to "muddy up a narrative" and to "take some air out of the room" after a news report about the new voucher program that was published ... In the email exchange, White proposes creating a news story about the "due diligence" process for school voucher approvals to counter a Monroe News-Star article that revealed the state Department of Education had not performed site visits or extensive review of voucher applications.
Those site visits and reviews weren’t being done. Even worse, parents of children were left to be the victims of