Tag: Bobby Jindal

• New Orleans’ Recovery School District: The Lie Unveiled

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  May 21, 2013

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  School Turnaround

  Originally posted on deutsch29: Mercedes Schneider's Blog: Yesterday, I was watching a video clip of the 2011 Aspen Institute debate between Wendy Kopp and Diane Ravitch.  In a final effort to defend corporate reform, Kopp tells the audience, “I encourage everyone to see for yourself, study for yourself… New Orleans….” I intend to take Kopp…

  

• Vouchers and School Finance: Saving the Statehouse $?

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  January 1, 2013

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  School Finance, Vouchers

  Happy New Year 2013! I have often posted on school vouchers over the past few months. Why? There are factions in Texas, Louisiana and elsewhere that still argue they are efficacious educational policy and are pressing them into law. They are not. See CI’s thread on vouchers here. IUPRA will soon release a brief entitled…