“This story is pure innuendo and drama—a fiction—under the guise of investigative reporting.”
—Superintendent of Education, in a Jan. 25 email to Southern Education Desk reporter Sue Lincoln, who was preparing a story on skewed data on student test scores released by White’s Department of Education.
“He (White) told me to ‘Check with people over you to be sure this is the right thing to do.'”
—Reporter Sue Lincoln, on a conversation with White over her story about student test score data.
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Lies and intimidation.
What a novel concept!
Tom, it’s now Tuesday and the Supreme Ct has just found the school-voucher law unconstitutional. Your take? What will happen next? What tricks will Jindal & Privatization play now that they have to find funding elsewhere? What will BESE do with new formula…and what will the legislature do in response to whatever BESE and Jindal do? Sooo many questions, so little time! Hope you devote a column to your best guess to what comes next.
First, to be completely factual, the Supreme Court did not find vouchers to be unconstitutional–just the funding method of taking money from the MFP appropriations for local school districts. The administration will doubtless attempt to find some alternate method of funding through the legislative process. As to whether or not the legislature will be receptive given the foul mood and the tension between the legislature and the governor’s office is anyone’s guess.
Who knows what transpires in the back rooms of state government?