“Overall, the proficiency rating for the Scholarship (voucher) Program is 41 percent. This rating is based on the percent of students who scored basic and above on standardized tests during academic year 2012-2013.”
—Report by the Legislative Auditor on the Louisiana Department of Education’s “Student Scholarships for Educational Excellence Program.” (Hosanna Christian Academy in Baton Rouge, which subjects job applications to an extremely personal questionnaire based on religious believes and sexual activity and orientation while receiving $1.4 million in state funding, and New Living Word School in Ruston which the audit report says overcharged the Department of Education by more than $395,000 before subsequently being removed from the program, had proficiency ratings of 41.2 percent and 21.1 percent, respectively.)
41%. That is a failing grade. Well, it was back when I went to school.90% and above = A. 80%-90% = B. 70%-80% = C. 60%-70% = D. Below 60% = F.
Even later when some schools in southern California dropped the “D” to 50%, below that 50% was still an F.
Are the folks who run this voucher deal proud of this 41% mark? Do they have a plan, any plan to improve on this mark of 41%?
Yes, I know, I have so many questions and no answers. Well, I am just a tax payer, not a highly paid consultant with the job of educating the students nor making this school voucher deal work as we were told it would.