New Orleans: The Other Side of the Story
I recently interviewed Raynard Sanders, a veteran educator in New Orleans, about his new book The Coup D’etat of the New Orleans Public Schools: Money,...
Category : Louisiana
Mercedes Schneider: The Hoax of Online “Learning” in Louisiana
Mercedes Schneider reports here on the absurd class sizes assigned to teachers in Louisiana in virtual classes. The teachers are not “teachers,” they are in...
Louisiana: Reading Scores in Early Grades Decline under Reformer John White
Louisiana has been firmly in the grip of “reformers” (i.e., believers in privatization, Teach for America, and high-stakes testing) for many years. The “reformers’” biggest...
Mercedes Schneider: Surviving Hurricanes, COVID, and DeVos
Mercedes Schneider teaches English to high school students in Louisiana. In this post, she describes her triumphs of recent months: one hurricane after another has...
“Free to Choose: Can School Choice Reduce Student Achievement?”
For the past thirty years, school choice advocates have claimed that the best way to improve education was to give families public money to send...
Mercedes Scheider: My Students Are Wearing Masks!
Mercedes Schneider is back to work teaching high school English in Louisiana. She is doing her best to keep her students socially distanced, though she...
Chief Justice Roberts Provides Swing Vote to Strike Down Law to Ban Abortions
Chief Justice John Roberts voted with the Supreme Court’s four liberal justices to strike down a Louisiana law that would have severely restricted access to...
Mercedes Schneider: As New Superintendent Takes Over, TFA Executives Head for the Exits
Thanks to the reporting of Mercedes Schneider, we have followed the travails of that state over several years of “reform” leadership: Republican Governor Jindal pushed...
Mike Deshotels: Every Reform Imposed in Louisiana Has Failed and Harmed Children
Mike Deshotels reviews the past several years of “reform,” funded by the Walton Family and Michael Bloomberg, and declares that every part of it has...
Louisiana: Democratic Governor Edwards Pledges to Increase Education Spending, But Not on Raising Teachers’ Salaries
Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards announced a budget proposal that earmarked new spending on education, but no raises for teachers, whose pay is below the...