Cleaning Up John White’s Mess
Time to start eliminating the mess. . .
John White is likely to be gone by the end of June but Louisiana will still have its work cut out cleaning up the messes he will leave behind. Some of those messes off the top of my head are:
- Unmonitored, standardless voucher program is an utter failure and a poorly performing mess from what little White has permitted us to see
- The Course Choice program is fraught with fraud which will cost Louisiana millions of dollars annually as it stands now
- Charter schools are not reporting most of the data they are required to and John White has refused to comply with the law in regards to the small amount of monitoring required
- MFP (the public school funding formula) has never been approved under his watch
- Pimping of our students and their data to unsupervised and unaccountable data pirates like inBloom andAgilix
- Falsified dropout and graduate numbers
- Common Core standards designed to dumb down our curriculum so text book and test makers can rack up big profits which is opposed by parents, teachers and teaparty groups and even liberal ‘ole me (I was
