Grigsby on Jindal's common core reversal

FREEMAN, stop with the Jindal shite. You've now created 2 threads on the same topic.

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FREEMAN, stop with the Jindal shite. You've now created 2 threads on the same topic.

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No. This thread is about the irony of Jindal using Grisby money to get the BESE board he wanted and now he has pissed off Grisby.

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Through his office, Grigsby declined requests for an interview. In 2011 he told The Times-Picayune that he plunged into the BESE races to change a broken public education system. “People don’t want to live here because of the schools,” he said then.

The Grigsbys were not the only top donors in the education wars. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his trust poured $333,500 into Louisiana politics, mostly to support the same “school choice” candidates in the BESE races favored by Grigsby and Jindal. A Democrat-turned Republican-turned independent, Bloomberg earned the 36th spot in the top 400 list, the highest ranking for an out-of-state individual.

Michael BloombergNew York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg
At stake in the 2011 BESE elections was whether Jindal would get the eight-vote supermajority needed in the 11-member board to ratify John White as new state education superintendent. Before taking over New Orleans’ Recovery School District, White was a high-level education official in New York implementing policies Bloomberg supported. Bloomberg’s press office referred campaign questions to a representative of Bloomberg’s “super PAC,” who didn’t return a request for comment.

The Grigsbys and Bloomberg got their money’s worth. Five of seven candidates they backed were elected to BESE, including Kira Orange Jones of New Orleans and Chas Roemer of Baton Rouge, the son of former Gov. Roemer. The new board confirmed White as superintendent.

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A group of 40 business

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List them, otherwise its just a made up number.

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What did Jindal personally do to you?

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You didn't answer the question.

So Lane now speaks for all business owners in Louisiana? Interesting.

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do you ask this in the 20-per-page anti-Obama threads?

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1) No single poster makes as many anti-Obama threads as this guy does anti-Jindal threads. This makes 2 threads in one day on the same subject.

2) It is likely that no one on this board has had any personal interaction with Obama. However, it is very likely that some have had personal interaction with Jindal.

So i guess the business communities in these other 17 states are razing hell also about not supporting common core?


States that have pulled out of their Assessment Consortium:

Utah (Smarter Balanced) – https://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/mobile/54627081-68/utah-state-standards-consortium.html.csp
Oklahoma (PARCC) – https://truthinamericaneducation.com/common-core-assessments/oklahoma-pulls-out-of-parcc/ (the Tulsa World article is no longer on the website).
Georgia (PARCC) – https://www.ajc.com/news/news/breaking-news/georgia-decides-against-offering-common-core-stand/nYzDr/
Alabama (Smarter Balanced & PARCC – they were an advisory state) – https://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/curriculum/2013/02/alabama_withdraws_from_both_te.html
Indiana (PARCC) – https://truthinamericaneducation.com/common-core-assessments/pence-pulls-indiana-out-of-parcc/ and https://indianapublicmedia.org/stateimpact/2013/07/29/gov-pence-signals-intent-to-withdraw-from-common-core-consortium-parcc/ As of December PARCC still had them listed though – https://hoosiersagainstcommoncore.com/indianas-withdraw-parcc-real-show/
Kansas (Smarter Balanced) – https://m.cjonline.com/news/2013-12-10/kansas-opts-create-its-own-common-core-tests
Pennsylvania (Smarter Balanced & PARCC) – https://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/curriculum/2013/06/pennsylvania_signals_departure_from_test_consortia.html
Alaska (Smarter Balanced) – https://www.newsminer.com/news/education/alaska-changes-school-testing-consortium/article_05509298-7d77-11e3-9606-001a4bcf6878.html
Florida (PARCC) - https://truthinamericaneducation.com/common-core-assessments/rick-scott-pulls-florida-out-of-parcc/

States Actively Considering Withdrawing

Michigan (Smarter Balanced) – https://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/curriculum/2013/12/consortium_watch_kansas_drops_.html
Kentucky (PARCC) – https://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/curriculum/2013/12/consortium_watch_kansas_drops_.html
North Carolina (Smarter Balanced) – https://www.newsobserver.com/2014/01/02/3502892/common-core-backlash-casts-shadow.html
Iowa (Smarter Balanced) – The Iowa Legislature actually has to approve its use – https://caffeinatedthoughts.com/2013/05/iowa-puts-common-core-assessments-on-hold/

States that never joined.

Virginia
Texas
Nebraska
Minnesota

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(ftr, i'm not taking a stance on common core, as my kids will never darken the doors of a public school, at least it's highly unlikely in Louisiana.)

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some private schools are also teaching components of common core.

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Although the most-often debated math and English benchmarks are secular, approximately 100 of the nation's 195 Catholic dioceses have taken them on in some form.

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Why do Louisiana businesses care whether or not Common Core is implemented in LA schools?

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The business community is solidly behind Common Core

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Common core is shite. No one is behind it.