Education officials in Louisiana expect the number of schools receiving an F on state school report cards to increase by 57 percent in 2018, and schools with an A designation will decrease 38 percent due to a new rating system. This reworking of the state’s...
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According to American Press, “Louisiana Superintendent John White told a U.S. Senate committee” recently “that the state’s plan to implement the Every Student Succeeds Act is based on the idea of ‘academic mastery.’” Under ESSA, “each state must submit a plan to the Department of...
The Dept. of Education approved ESSA plans from Connecticut and Louisiana.
The Louisiana Dept. of Education is seeking “proposals from organizations that could conduct an evaluation of operations and academic programs at the Louisiana School for the Deaf, the Louisiana School for the Visually Impaired and the Louisiana Special Education Center” to comply with ESSA. The...
The Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education endorsed the state’s draft ESSA implementation plan. The board encouraged the Louisiana Dept. of Education to “submit the plan no earlier than April 15, 2017.”
The Superintendents’ Advisory Council urged Louisiana Superintendent John White to consider submitting the state’s ESSA plan for the September deadline. White’s rationale is that an April submission will allow changes to be put in place for the 2017-28 school year, but members of the Advisory...
Nine Louisiana business and education groups – including Louisiana Association of Business and Industry, the Urban League of Greater New Orleans and the Southern Poverty Law Center – expressed their concern with the way public school letter grades are calculated in Superintendent White’s draft ESSA...
A 15-member panel named by Gov. John Bel Edwards, “who differs with [Superintendent] White on key public school topics,” will come up with its own recommendations for the state’s implementation plan in December. The state’s draft plan would address time for end-of-year testing and “calls...
The Louisiana Dept. of Education released their draft state plan for public consideration and comment. Overall, the document lays out five “challenges” that Louisiana students experience and how they will be addressed in the state’s final accountability plan. The Dept. also announced a schedule of...
