\nKlein was mostly writing about New Orleans.\nBut that was just the start.\n<\/p>\n
\n\nThe current legislative initiative will effectively spread the New\nOrleans model to the rest of the state, while loosening\nadministrative checks on charter governance and opening up a new\narena of unaccountable education providers via the voucher program.\nThis is part of a nation-wide process of special interests and right\nwing zealots promulgating legislation designed to attack one of the\nfew remaining public pillars of this society. Their goal now is\nturning Louisiana into its pet project. Far from becoming a model\nfor thoughtful school reform, the state is set to become an example\nof the havoc wreaked when elite interests are allowed to run rampant\nover the democratic process.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\nNext: who’s behind this, and not just in Louisiana?\nHint: yes, it’s ALEC, the same that pushes private prisons,\nfor the same reason: private corporate control for private corporate profit.\n<\/p>\n
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<\/a>\nsession in pushing wide-reaching education reforms designed to\nexpand the charter school footprint, while opening the door to\nvouchers and tying teacher tenure to student test results. In the\nearly hours of the morning on March 23rd, after a marathon session,\nthe Louisiana State House passed two bills that form the core of a\nwide-reaching education reform agenda designed to expand the charter\nschool footprint, while opening the door to vouchers and tying\nteacher tenure to student test results. Governor Bobby Jindal wasted\nno time in pushing these reforms through in the first weeks of the\nlegislative session, and the urgency with which he has advanced this\nagenda has infuriated teachers and left even some charter-school\nadvocates alarmed. \u201cThe governor’s expression of urgency for\nthese bills is specious at best. [They] did not have to be passed\nunder cover of darkness,\u201d says Louisiana Federation of\nTeachers (LFT) president Steve Monaghan. Even Senator Mary Landrieu,\na Democrat who has been an avid charter school advocate, criticized\nthe Governor’s haste: \u201cI am by no means na\u00efve, and know full\nwell the Administration’s political advantage of pushing legislation\nthrough with as little debate as possible.\u201d With these bills,\nLouisiana is set to join Florida, Ohio and Minnesota amongst the\nstates that have enacted the most far-reaching of these school\nreforms. This marks the latest wave in a concerted nation-wide\neffort by right-wing advocacy organizations and their corporate\nsupporters to ravage the public sector.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n