Jindal's move towards more private/Christian schools — not public — one well-educated view:"All in all, the Jindal legislation is the most far-reaching attempt in the nation to de-fund, dismantle, and obliterate public education. Paul Pastorek, the former Louisiana state superintendent, calls this a marketplace approach, which is right. With no new funding, everyone gets to dip into the funds allocated for public schools and carve out a piece for themselves, for vouchers, charters, home-schoolers, and for-profit online providers. Is there any evidence that any of these changes will improve education? No, none whatsoever. Does the Jindal law follow the lead of any of the high-performing nations? No. But that's what 'reform' means today."
Thus writes Diane Ravitch, a research professor of education at New York University. She is the author of ten books on education — the most recent, "The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education" — and the editor of 14 others who was former assistant secretary of education under President George H.W. Bush. She was once a leading apostle of the kind of reforms she now decries.
I would argue and for good reason. The chart above is a great example of the books Jindal will allow in schools paid for with tax dollars, but which are not public schools.
The last thing this county needs are schools run on the Bob Jones, Pat Robertson, or Jerry Falwell models.
Dinosaurs and man lived side-by-side do tell, do tell.
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