“The idea that creating ‘competition’ for low performing schools (that in fact are serving high poverty communities) will somehow force improvement is wrong. It has not been shown to work anywhere in this country. Such a scheme is based on the assumption that low performance is caused by lazy or incompetent teachers and administrators. The reason for low performance is, to paraphrase Carville; It’s the poverty, stupid!”
–Michael Deshotels, executive director of the Louisiana Association of Educators, commenting on Gov. Jindal’s education reform proposals.
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