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Our Views: As scandal, not much, yet
March 19, 2014We hope cooler heads will prevail to allow for a thorough investigation so appropriate action can be taken…
State seeks to release control of PC Central, St. Helena Middle
March 19, 2014We have several schools in EBRPSS trapped in similar situations. Lanier Elementary left EBRPSS with a score of 56.6 in 2008-2009. Obviously, the school was not where it needed to be. Last school year (2012-2013) under RSD control, its score was 27.8. Where's the consistency across districts for when the RSD determines its own failure?
Questions swirl around late nomination of EBR school for national honor
March 14, 2014State education officials belatedly nominated a public elementary school in Baton Rouge for the prestigious Blue Ribbon School of Excellence award Thursday, leaving the school just eight days to complete the involved application, while four other eligible Louisiana schools had weeks to complete theirs…
Say goodbye to public schools: Diane Ravitch warns Salon some cities will soon have none
March 12, 2014Once a George H.W. Bush education official and an advocate for greater testing-based accountability, Diane Ravitch has in recent years become the nation’s highest-profile opponent of Michelle Rhee’s style of charter-based education reform (one also espoused by Barack Obama)…
EBR school decisions need input from parents, education group says
March 11, 2014Parents of students in the East Baton Rouge Parish School System are the "true stakeholders" in the debate over how to restructure the school district…
Community group decries proposals targeting EBR schools
March 11, 2014The leader of an organization that previously opposed attempts to create a breakaway school district decried a variety of proposals targeting the East Baton Rouge Parish school system…
Our Views: A pause on policies?
March 11, 2014Down at the State Capitol, much of the legislative session may be taken up with education bills. What is taught in classrooms and tested in exams — that is the Common Core controversy…
Charter experiment 'spinning out of control' in Durham County
February 4, 2014What is happening in Durham County, N.C., is exactly what charter school critics have long feared: the destabilization of the traditional district system…
Education plans could create a volatile mix in legislative session
March 5, 2014While Common Core is expected to dominate legislative education debates, battles are shaping up on teacher tenure, educator job evaluations and an overhaul of Louisiana's public-school leadership…