“I think we can get it past BESE (the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education). I may ask your help on that but I think we can get it past BESE.”
“The assumption on the board (BESE) is that I’m just doing the governor’s bidding on some favor that he’s cashing in on.”
“I didn’t want to open the formula up to such scrutiny…”
“I can get it corrected. I want to make sure it’s possible without publicly (unintelligible).”
—Comments made by Superintendent of Education John White in a 14-minute telephone conversation with State Rep. Alan Seabaugh (R-Shreveport). White, in the course of that conversation, acquiesced to Seabaugh’s wishes that the Department of Education’s (DOE) Value Added Model (VAM) for teacher evaluation should be “tweaked” after White admitted that he “should have given the (VAM) procedure more thought.”
“I want minimal impact and an ability to bury it…”
—White, giving instructions to begin the “tweaking” process to a DOE employee immediately following the phone call with Seabaugh.
“I suggested (to White) that we tweak this model and it doesn’t have to be policy and he chewed my ass out.”
—The employee, to a co-worker following the telephone conversation between White and Seabaugh.
Louisiana Voice 
UNBELIEVABLE !!!!!
WHERE ARE THE PEOPLE THAT ARE PAID TO PUT PEOPLE LIKE THIS BEHIND BARS?
I’m ashamed to say I worked at the DOE a few years ago. I am a teacher, and I have worked tirelessly to educate my students. This whole saga reads like a novel about corruption and illegal activities. We must stand together and save our profession!
WHERE IS MAINSTREAM MEDIA????????????
It’s a sorry state when BESE is at the bid & debt of White and Jindal who care nothing at all but getting their way. The problem is their way is the wrong way!! And with the BESE Board, if I were on it, I would be embarrassed to say I was a member. They are only “YES” members to both W & J, not the people of our State. If any of them ever run for any type of office, I would hope they would be run out of Louisiana. Roemer is only a yes man, and what else can I do for you Jindal and White. What a waste of an education, the State probably paid for through his Dad.
Not surprising that Seabaugh voted against anti-bullying legislation in 2011 session.
I am sick of Louisiana Public schools being trashed by this administration, I hope that the “house of cards” the Jindal Adm. built is falling…..they have extorted, manipulated, the Legis. in order to implement the ALEC agenda….