A Herculean Task
 

With the passage of his two education reform bills last week, Gov. Bobby Jindal essentially got everything he wanted in his push to overhaul Louisiana's primary and secondary public education system. The governor and his allies rewrote the rules for teacher tenure, made student performance the lynchpin of teacher evaluation programs, gave superintendents more authority to hire and fire personnel, made it easier to establish charter schools and vastly expanded the fledgling voucher program in New Orleans.? [ Read more ]

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