BY WILL SENTELL | wsentell@theadvocate.com Published Jul 13, 2017 at 10:30 am | Updated Jul 13, 2017 at 3:26 pm Top officials of the state Department of Education said Thursday they are encouraged by the federal response to the state’s plan for revamping public schools in Louisiana. The proposal, which was submitted on April 15, […]
By Carolyn Phenicie Washington, D.C. – Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Tuesday praised the choice that charter schools provide while cautioning charter advocates that they aren’t a panacea to fix education’s ills and that they should seek out new innovations. Charter schools were created to provide options for children who weren’t served well by public schools, […]
America’s devotion to local control of schools is dying, but it is also being reborn as a new faith in charter schools. These independently operated public schools—nearly 7,000 across the country, and counting—provide a much-needed option for almost three million youngsters in 43 states. As students return to school, the enterprise responsible for educating them […]
The Orleans Parish School Board signed off this week on a step-by-step plan to reclaim the schools it lost to the state after Hurricane Katrina, a document aimed at ensuring a seamless transition to local control. But the myriad decisions that still have to be made — and the deadlines that must be met — […]
Teachers should be preparing to have talks with their students about the killing of three law enforcement officers in Baton Rouge, the leader of the Louisiana Association of Public Charter Schools said Wednesday. Read more: http://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/baton_rouge_officer_shooting/article_4008bfe2-4e84-11e6-a51e-4befb5e4d21c.html
There is a reason the Louisiana Legislature has stayed true to school improvement based on high standards, accountability and parent and student choice. This past year, the progress on fourth grade NAEP national testing and high school ACT scores was top in the nation among 50 states. The statewide high school graduation rate is at […]
This op-ed by Caroline Roemer was published in the printed July 1 issue of The Daily Star in Hammond. Since the Louisiana Charter School Law was first enacted in 1995, school boards have often viewed charter schools as “competition” rather than an opportunity — an attitude that comes at the expense of their constituents. Tangipahoa […]
Last year 2.9 million children attended 6,700 charter schools in America—public schools independent of districts and free of many bureaucratic constraints. Since charters were invented in Minnesota twenty-four years ago, they have become the subject of intense battles between supporters and detractors. Supporters point out that charters receive 28 percent less money per child, on […]
A Letter to the Editor from ED Caroline Roemer in The Advertiser: Opponents of public charter schools are wrong to blame charters for the fiscal woes of the Lafayette Parish School Board at a time when public and private organizations, both large and small, are all suffering from shrinking budgets. Doing so demonstrates a misunderstanding […]
The longest-running joke in the just-ended annual legislative session was each legislator’s answer to the question: How are you going to spend the 30 minutes of “free time” between the regular session ending and the next special session beginning? Nobody asked me, but my answer is simple: I compiled my annual (for more than 30 […]
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