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No Accountability for Voucher Schools in Louisiana
If the voucher and charter schools are supposed to be better or at least as good as traditional public schools, why don't politicians want to hold them to the same standards?
What passes for education reform among Republicans and the corporate owned wing of the Democratic Party is straight up theft from the taxpayer by corrupted politicians. Ideology is simply the windowless van they throw their victim in to get away.
Most of the students taking public money with them are in kindergarten, first and second grades, where they are not tested. And there will be no consequences for the voucher schools if their students fail:
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White’s plan requires voucher students in grades 3-11 to take standardized tests like public school students, including the LEAP exam taken by fourth- and eighth-graders take. [But not all the students in the school.]
However, unlike public school students voucher recipients will not be required to pass LEAP to move to the next grade.
Private schools will not get letter grades, which their public school counterparts do.
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