COVID-19: Education & the Legislative Session By Lisa Moomaw (Tulane University), OPEN Intern It’s obvious that the spread of COVID-19 has transformed daily life from employment, to government to schools. On March 11th, Governor John Bel Edwards issued a proclamation banning gatherings of more than 250 people and closing schools through April 13th. On […]
And we paid him not to Earlier in 2019 local investigative reporting showed that after four years and $40 million, the state’s voucher program- the Louisiana’s Scholarship Program- had produced not just ineffective but even negative student results. Specifically, the report showed that participating students generally had lower scores on state standardized tests than their […]
“No liberation without education”- Angela Y. Davis Stepping into a new decade gives us pause to think about all that has happened previously and what lies ahead. It’s been almost 15 years since Hurricane Katrina- a disaster used as cover for a complete overhaul of the public education system in New Orleans. It’s been 10 […]
Another season of educational theater… It’s that time of the year again, when all sides don their masks to begin the annual educational theater season, where we all pretend we know where the school performance scores come from and what they mean about the quality of our public education system. You can feel the […]
