A plan by Gov Jindal that will go absolutely nowhere even though it's the best way to get our current education system out of its rut. Unions will fight it tooth and nail and many politicians will fall in line, afraid of losing their campaign contributions. The K-12 Education Reform can be read @ http://americanext.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/America-Next-K-12-Education-Reform.pdf Here are the three main principles: Allowing education dollars to follow the child, meaning to be used as parents and families deem best inside or outside conventional government schools and including online learning and homeschooling. Reforming teacher tenure laws: We must get out of the mode of paying teachers for how long they have been breathing. Good teachers need to be rewarded, and underperforming teachers need to be put on notice, and ultimately dismissed if they do not improve. Rejecting the national curriculum created by Common Core education standards and returning education decisions to the local level: Its bad enough that the federal government has begun tying compliance with Common Core to federal funds, but once you see the methods and the homework that accompanies Common Core, the verdict is in: Common Core must go.
Jindal's education reform in Louisiana has been a disaster. I doubt he'd get reelected if he had to run for office again in Louisiana.
