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Charter Schools “Experiment” Still at Odds with Law and Democracy

 New Orleans   To the degree that many so-called educational “reformers” like to tout New Orleans and the post-Katrina usurpation of much of the school system through federal money bribes and legislative do-overs as a model, it is worth seeing how the tendency to no accountability and educational autocracy continues unabated.

The original executive orders that seized [...]

Beck Rally in DC

New Orleans One of the little known trivia questions about New Orleans over the last 20 years would be what newspaper in the country developed more Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonists?  The Times-Picayune would be right at the top of that list and Mike Luckovich now laboring for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution is consistently one of [...]

Charter School Access

New Orleans        I’m sorry but I would bet money that it will not only be in New Orleans that a self-interested principal like Kathy Riedlinger at Lusher Charter School figures out with her handpicked board how to get paid over $200,000 a year!  There is simply no transparency or accountability in the governance of [...]

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