“We have received 52 enrollment requests since the inception of Course Choice. Of the 52 requests, 42 have been from the Bossier Technical Center.”
—Spokesperson for Bossier Parish School Board, commenting on 52 attempted registrations for Course Choice courses by providers FastPath and Smart Start. He said there are no students at Bossier Technical Center.
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Theft of public funds by fraud is a felony. Louisiana is the prison capital of the world. Shouldn’t we lock up the thieves who are stealing our scarce public funds? I have never, ever, in my six decades on this earth, three of them in state service, seen such blatant, unabashed theft and corruption at the highest levels of government. And I fear we are only now seeing the tip of a very, very large iceberg.
White, Jindal, and Co. swept the obstacle of New Living Word Ministries School’s lack of teachers out of the way last year and the school got funded. It seems a safe bet that this incredibly corrupt Course Choice scandal will meet with the same fate. Legislators and responsible legal officials will knuckle under to Jindal and the state will continue to be the laughing stock of the nation. And in the meanwhile Grover Norquist runs the Louisiana economy. So what do we do in the meanwhile? Recall the entire lot and put rational men and women in their place.
The only difference I see in Jindal and Edwards is they aren’t handing out envelopes of cash on the House and Senate floor under Jindal.
Yet.
Attorney General, are you there? This is the taxpayers of LA, we want our money back! He must be in a Kool-Aid induced coma compliments of Gov Jindal, and Administration. Voters do not forget!
can you do a column on HB 73?
This sounds almost like these vendors (I use that term loosely) have an old CEEB code list and are looking for schools that “sound” like they have students “likely” to enroll in Course Choice. When schools close their CEEB code may take a while before it is retired from the list… I know when I was working with these lists from the ACT, a school would sometimes be noted “closed” or “inactive” before they totally removed it from the list. But especially after Katrina it was extremely important for me in higher ed (enrollment management) to make sure that I was using the most up to date list possible since so many schools close and open in Louisiana on such a frequent basis. This must have been from a really old list though (assuming I’m correct and that’s where they got it from) because I just looked at a CEEB list of high schools from 2010 and it wasn’t there.