A Study The Teachers’ Unions Won’t Like

[longknife]

Here’s a press release we got a big kick out of this afternoon…
The Louisiana Federation for Children today celebrated the results of the 2013 Louisiana Scholarship Program Parental Satisfaction Survey. The direct mail survey, conducted in partnership with the Black Alliance for Educational Options, measured parental satisfaction with the Louisiana Scholarship Program, which allows eligible students to receive state scholarships to attend the participating private school of their choice.

According to the survey conducted in February 2013, an overwhelming majority—92.5 percent—of parents are either “satisfied” or “very satisfied” with their child’s scholarship school.

The survey also found that 93.6 percent of parents are happy with their child’s academic progress; 99.3 percent of parents indicated their child feels safe at their scholarship school; and 98.1 percent of respondents feel welcome at their child’s scholarship school.

Read more @ http://thehayride.com/2013/03/a-study-the-teachers-unions-wont-like/

Golly, gee! Ya think?

 

[Dr.Traveler]

Louisiana's schools are consistently rated 49th or 2nd depending on how the survey is worded. I'm not surprised by the response. The problem is that there's quite a few "schools" cashing in on voucher money that aren't actually schools. Ruston has a church that's basically put TV sets in their fellowship hall and bought a bunch of DVD's collecting voucher money. Not to mention the pretty seriously questionable crap that some of the areas "schools are teaching.

Of course there is also an outcry in Louisiana because it turns out thanks to voucher programs your tax dollars could end up supporting Islamic schools here in the US of A.

Ultimately though, it's a moot point as Jindal blew writing the law by not reading the State Constitution. It'll be struck down here soon.

 

[Annika55]

Here’s a press release we got a big kick out of this afternoon…
The Louisiana Federation for Children today celebrated the results of the 2013 Louisiana Scholarship Program Parental Satisfaction Survey. The direct mail survey, conducted in partnership with the Black Alliance for Educational Options, measured parental satisfaction with the Louisiana Scholarship Program, which allows eligible students to receive state scholarships to attend the participating private school of their choice.

According to the survey conducted in February 2013, an overwhelming majority—92.5 percent—of parents are either “satisfied” or “very satisfied” with their child’s scholarship school.

The survey also found that 93.6 percent of parents are happy with their child’s academic progress; 99.3 percent of parents indicated their child feels
safe at their scholarship school; and 98.1 percent of respondents feel welcome at their child’s scholarship school.

Read more @ http://thehayride.com/2013/03/a-study-the-teachers-unions-wont-like/

Golly, gee! Ya think?

Similar to parents' responses regarding NYC public schools!

"A total of 967,000 parents, teachers and elementary and middle school students participated in the survey."

Parents of NYC students in public schools ratings:
"When it comes to their own school, 94 percent of parents said they were satisfied or very satisfied with the education their child received this year."
Annual Schools Survey Shows Parents More Satisfied Than Teachers ? SchoolBook

 

[Dr.Traveler]

Well, to be clear, I'm not downplaying the results of the survey. Louisiana's public school system is a disaster. In some parishes you're still looking at schools that are all but segregated. The level of graft and corruption in the school boards and local governments that control the public schools are insane. While some really amazing teachers exist in the public schools, alternate certification routes have created a large pool of poorly prepared and uneducated teachers.

Louisiana has basically screwed up public education so badly over such a long period of time that the voucher system is all that's left as a workable solution. I don't see it as being humanly possible to fix what's broken in the public schools here. What I'm not crazy about is the way vouchers are implemented.

If you're giving out State money, you sure as hell better hold these "schools", and I use the term loosely, collecting voucher money to a fairly high standard. If you're going to give this money to parochial schools, then folks need to understand that WILL mean taxpayer money will go to local synagogues and madrassas thanks to freedom of religion.

Jindal's voucher program is just plain implemented poorly. The worst of it is the fact that it's become clear the "best" private schools in the area won't accept the students who qualify for this scholarship program as the kids just aren't up to the educational level of the school. And why should they? In Louisiana you prioritize your kid's private school tuition money over the mortgage payment. The really good private schools already have the pick of the best students in the state, why should they take the weakest in?

Add to that the fact that Jindal wrote a law that won't pass Constitutional muster on technical issues and the program becomes a total failure.

ASIDE: Jindal's voucher program fails the State's requirement that a bill cover only one topic. He bundled vouchers in with tenure and retirement reform and managed to violate an additional section about the State's minimum funding of public education.