Louisiana Governor and likely presidential candidate Bobby Jindal
(r) released his new "roadmap" for reforming K-12 education Monday
morning, focusing on the importance of deregulating and privatizing
public schools and holding up New Orleans' nearly all-charter school
district as a model for the nation."I'm proud we've increased
the number of charter schools, nearly doubling them," Jindal told an
audience on Capitol Hill. "I get so frustrated when people tell us to
wait for incremental gains. We have seen remarkable gains."
But
new data calls the supposed gains into question. The class of 2014
graduating from the 90%-charter New Orleans Recovery School District
scored so low on the national ACT test that they didn't meet the minimum
requirements for Louisiana's colleges.
According to numbers
crunched by Louisiana public school teacher and doctor of statistics
Mercedes Schneider, just over 6 percent of high school seniors in New
Orleans scored high enough in English and Math to qualify for admission
into a Louisiana four-year college or university straight out of high
school. Five of the district's 16 high schools produced not a single
student who met these requirements.
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