re: Louisiana House kills bill to restructure East Baton Rouge Parish schools

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I thought BRAC was putting the cart before the horse.

They need to hire principals that are qualified to run a school from A to Z first.

Btw, I find it ironic that Taylor says principals can't put together a budget but they can cut a specified percentage out if their budgets without his help.

But BRAC tried and that's more than Broome ,and her allies are doing.

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I agree with a lot of what you said. The bill had a lot of good concepts at its core but it felt "rushed." I like Knapp's comments that they will focus on change through the local school board elections this Fall. Sort of a "well you wanted this handled locally, let's handle it locally by booting some of you sumabetchs out!" approach.

My only concern is that by failing by such a large margin, it allows the school bureaucracy (ie unions) to dig in deeper. Hindsight is 20/20 but might have been better to pull the bill with a message of "We will pull the bill, for now, to give EBRPSB a chance to reform itself; but if they don't, we will be back." That way the pressure stays up.