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Notable Quotables (in their own words)

Posted in BESE, Contract, Contracts, Education, Notable Quotables, Public Records, Transparency on June 24, 2013| 2 Comments »

“…the Department is not in possession of any public record(s) responsive to the above-written request.”

—May 9 Reply from the Department of Education’s legal department in response to LouisianaVoice public records request of April 22 in which we asked for “the official letter or email that you (Superintendent of Education John White) sent to inBloom to cancel the data storage agreement” as quoted in the Monroe News-Star report.

“White said he’ll send the certified letter to inBloom, but he said he’s sent several letters already notifying the organization that Louisiana’s data-sharing had ended.”

—Excerpt from Melinda Deslatte’s Associated Press story of June 20 in which White told the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) that he had terminated the Jan. 13 contract with inBloom.

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Notable Quotables (in their own words)

Posted in Boards, Governor's Office, Higher Education, Notable Quotables on June 20, 2013| 3 Comments »

“Regarding these six men, there has been only one change from the report filed on June 15, 1992. The change is that Mr. Carl Shetler was appointed to the Board of Trustees for Colleges and Universities for the State of Louisiana for a period of six years, effective Jan. 1, 1993.”

—Letter from McNeese State University Athletic Director Robert Hayes to Greg Sankey of the Southland Conference dated June 29—barely two weeks after Hayes identified six Lake Charles area businessmen, including Shetler, who were to be disassociated with the university for illegal financial payments to McNeese athletes.

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Notable Quotables (in their own words)

Posted in ATC, Governor's Office, Legislature, Legislators, Notable Quotables on May 30, 2013| 3 Comments »

“You cannot take the freedom of law-abiding Americans, whether you disagree with them or not, and keep your own freedom. When you do that, you go to jail.”

—Gov. Bobby Jindal, speaking to Virginia Republicans earlier this month in saying the Obama administration “bears responsibility” for the Internal Revenue Service investigation of conservative, including the Tea Party.

“It was also YOU who gave the directive to research Tom Aswell.”

—Excerpt from the letter written in March by fired ATC agent Michelle Chavis to Troy Hebert, director of the Office of Alcohol and Tobacco Control. Hebert is an appointee of Gov. Bobby Jindal and serves as a lap dog, er, messenger boy between Jindal and members of the State Legislature.

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Notable Quotables (in their own words)

Posted in BESE, Education, Ethics, Notable Quotables, Public Records, Transparency on May 20, 2013| 6 Comments »

“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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Notable Quotables (in their own words)

Posted in BESE, Education, Notable Quotables, Public Records on May 14, 2013| 10 Comments »

“Copies of evaluation results and any documentation related thereto of any school employee may be retained by the local (school) board, the board (Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education), or the department and, if retained, are confidential, do not constitute a public record and shall not be released or shown to any person.”

—One of the provisions included in Act 54 of 2010 that was designed to ensure the protection of personal information pertaining to teacher evaluations. Superintendent of Education John White may have violated that provision of the law when he released a report that helped identify three Caddo Parish teachers.

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