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WTG Mr. Jindal! It's time to push the greedy incompetent Teacher Unions/Democrats aside, and save our Public Schools.
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has always been a man in a hurry. By the age of 20, he was an honors graduate of Brown University with double majors in public policy and biology. By 23, he had completed a Rhodes scholarship at Oxford (having politely declined admission to Yale Law and Harvard Medical School) and taken a position with the prestigious consulting firm McKinsey & Company.
At 25, he was the youngest-ever secretary of Louisianas Department of Health and Hospitals; at 27, he was the executive director of the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare; at 28, president of the University of Louisiana system. By 30, Jindal was an assistant secretary of Health and Human Services in Washington. Within four years, hed be sworn in as a U.S. congressman from Louisianas First District. Within another three, hed be governor of the Pelican State.
Thus, even at the ripe old age of 40, when Bobby Jindal tells you hes going to do something, it becomes a matter of mathematical certainty. So when Jindal pronounced in his second inaugural address, delivered in January of this year, that as long as there are children who are not receiving a quality education here in Louisiana our mission is not accomplished, it should have served as a heads up to the states educational establishment that reform was about to bear down on them with gale force.
Despite that warning shot, the defenders of the status quo led by two unions, the Louisiana Association of Educators and the Louisiana Federation of Teachers were caught flat-footed. And now, Jindal, less than three months after his Inauguration Day promise of root and branch reform to the states dysfunctional education system (44 percent of Louisiana schools receive grades of D or F in the states accountability ratings; test performance is in the bottom five nationally), is about to sign some of the most sweeping education reform legislation the nation has ever seen.
The laws passed by the Louisiana legislature last week read like a conservative education reformers wish list. Teacher tenure, which previously required three years of employment, will now be contingent on educators receiving a highly effective rating in five out of six consecutive years. Back-to-back ineffective ratings will be a firing offense...
Read more: Schoolhouse rocked: Bobby Jindal brings real education reform to Louisiana | The Daily Caller
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has always been a man in a hurry. By the age of 20, he was an honors graduate of Brown University with double majors in public policy and biology. By 23, he had completed a Rhodes scholarship at Oxford (having politely declined admission to Yale Law and Harvard Medical School) and taken a position with the prestigious consulting firm McKinsey & Company.
At 25, he was the youngest-ever secretary of Louisianas Department of Health and Hospitals; at 27, he was the executive director of the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare; at 28, president of the University of Louisiana system. By 30, Jindal was an assistant secretary of Health and Human Services in Washington. Within four years, hed be sworn in as a U.S. congressman from Louisianas First District. Within another three, hed be governor of the Pelican State.
Thus, even at the ripe old age of 40, when Bobby Jindal tells you hes going to do something, it becomes a matter of mathematical certainty. So when Jindal pronounced in his second inaugural address, delivered in January of this year, that as long as there are children who are not receiving a quality education here in Louisiana our mission is not accomplished, it should have served as a heads up to the states educational establishment that reform was about to bear down on them with gale force.
Despite that warning shot, the defenders of the status quo led by two unions, the Louisiana Association of Educators and the Louisiana Federation of Teachers were caught flat-footed. And now, Jindal, less than three months after his Inauguration Day promise of root and branch reform to the states dysfunctional education system (44 percent of Louisiana schools receive grades of D or F in the states accountability ratings; test performance is in the bottom five nationally), is about to sign some of the most sweeping education reform legislation the nation has ever seen.
The laws passed by the Louisiana legislature last week read like a conservative education reformers wish list. Teacher tenure, which previously required three years of employment, will now be contingent on educators receiving a highly effective rating in five out of six consecutive years. Back-to-back ineffective ratings will be a firing offense...
Read more: Schoolhouse rocked: Bobby Jindal brings real education reform to Louisiana | The Daily Caller
