Prog Policies Once Again…..

Reyville Elementary School in Louisana is 87% Black and 12% White.   The school is failing miserably..  Under the state’s Public School Choice policy, eligible students in schools flagged as failing and in need of certain levels of improvement can transfer to an “academically acceptable school.”

Unless you are “white”.

“Please note that white students at Rayville Elementary School will not be allowed to transfer to the listed schools due to the present provisions issued in the federal Richland Parish School desegregation case”.

If you are white you must remain in the terrible school because, according to the 1968 court decision “if the white kids were to leave the school it wouldn’t be fair to the negro“.

So Black children who go to dangerous poorly performing majority black schools in Louisiana will be allowed to transfer to a better, whiter school.  But the “White” children must remain in the dangerous poor performing majority black school.

Huffington Post has more on this issue.   But the media in general is Sshhhhhhh about it.

Go figure…..

The letter out of Rayville elementary comes amid the inception of a new voucher program in Louisiana. Under the new initiative, the most sweeping voucher program in the country, tens of millions of taxpayer dollars will be shifted from public schools to pay private schools, private businesses and private tutors to educate students across Louisiana.

The program is the cornerstone of Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal’s bold effort to reform public education in the state. Critics are concerned about funding and fairness — vouchers would cover the full cost of tuition at more than 120 private schools, including small, Bible-based church schools. Jindal says the program will spur school competition and expand parental choice.

Several of those religious schools that will be receiving public funds to take in new students from public schools also teach curricula that question the age of the universe, defying scientific evidence and theory and promote religious doctrine that “challenges the lessons central to public school science classrooms,” according to the Associated Press.

Louisiana’s School Performance Scores are based on varying combinations of testing results, attendance, dropout and graduation rates as well as growth and performance data.

Based on the SPS, each school receives a “growth target,” which represents how much progress each school must make annually to reach state goals. The SPS also serves as a determinant of whether a school meets federal Adequate Yearly Progress requirements under the No Child Left Behind law. A poor SPS and failure to meet AYP could mean state intervention that range from giving students the option to transfer out to school closures and staff turnover or transfer to the state’s Recovery School District.

Louisiana, however, is one of 32 states and Washington, D.C. that have been granted waivers from NCLB under the Obama administration.  (learn more)