For more than a year, Calcasieu Parish special education teacher Ganey Arsement has been on a self-appointed crusade against education reform in Louisiana. He has […]
“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” I would venture to guess that most people […]
Although the Louisiana Association of Educators (LAE) and Louisiana Federation of Teachers (LFT) largely stayed on the sidelines during last year’s electoral contests, a review […]
No good deed goes unpunished, or at least that’s what officials at the Associated Professional Educators of Louisiana (A+PEL) found when they tried to send […]
Note: This is the second installment of a four-part series. You can read Part I here. When Kyle Serrette learned back in February that Louisiana […]
At a time when other states are backing away from education policies that shake-up the status quo, Louisiana is charging forward with reforms aimed at […]
If you follow K-12 education in the Bayou State, you’re most likely familiar with Mike Deshotels, the former executive director of the Louisiana Association of […]
Given the myriad challenges facing Louisiana these days, it’s clear we need a bold, forward-looking leader fighting for us in the United States Senate. Apparently, […]
Over the past several weeks, Governor John Bel Edwards has made a flurry of appointments to various boards and commissions, including his Advisory Council on the Every […]
With the 2016 Regular Session of the Louisiana Legislature now in full swing, I thought it might be interesting to take a look at the […]
Ever since John Bel Edwards’ upset victory in the gubernatorial race last fall, education reform supporters have worried that the Governor would try to roll […]
There’s a difference, of course, between ambition and naked ambition. The former is a quality we admire in an individual who is willing to push […]
The website of the Louisiana Department of Education (LDOE) went down Monday morning after the state Department of Administration (DOA) failed to pay the site’s […]
It appears that some of our lawmakers in Baton Rouge have gotten cold feet when it comes to moving forward with the education reform measures […]