re: Louisiana education rankings climb

If you have worked in public education, you realize that these numbers can be manipulated. Improvements may have been made but I would think this improvement comes largely from “playing the game” and “jumping through hoops”.

40th in education, if you can make it to school without getting murdered.

The Jeff Landry effect. Putting the 10 commandments in school works after all

The new statewide grading changes for next school year. The article in the newspaper says many of the A rated schools will not longer be A rated once they’re in effect.

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In 2025, the state was supposed to adjust the scale upward. That got scrapped once they realized under the new scale, most districts would be rated an F! Is there growth happening? Sure Are schools still failing? Yes

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Yes, it’s a dumb scale (literally).

But so is the criteria used for calculating those scores.

For example, a student is only credited with taking and passing one AP class, dual enrollment class, or CLEP test for their entire high school career (as it relates to the school / district score).

In short, it lowers the scores of what would be your higher achieving districts.

Perhaps this is by design, so that the gap between the best and the worst districts doesn’t seem so large.

Additionally, test were optional in some instances for the students, yet still counted fully against the district.

An example was that if a child passed the 10th grade Science test, they didn’t have to pass the 11th grade Social Studies test.

They still had to take the 11th grade test, but they could literally put their name on it and catch some Z’s if they had previously passed the 10th grade test.

However, if a student failed Social Studies test (11th grade), the district / school would get dinged on their school / district scores.

It was a really shitty system.

Even comparing ACT / SAT scores nationally makes no sense, as the requirements put forth by each state can change the outcome.

In Louisiana, EVERY student must take the ACT. In Texas, only a portion do (they are required to take the SAT iirc). In short, SPED students count against Louisiana.



TLDR

1. Louisiana has improved, but had a LONG way to go.

2. The system used for scoring is moronic.

3. The focus on early childhood literacy rates is paying off.

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Brumley was on the short list to be Trump's Secretary of Education

He got beat out by

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I guess he didn’t have enough TV experience.

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Amazing what gaming the system can do.

“Look how many more As and Bs we have now!!! Look at that improvement!! Way less Fs!!!”


Just don’t look at how we changed the grading scale to artificially boost grades…. It’s alllll organic growth, I promise!

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But wouldn't this be based on standardized testing across different states and not a grading scale?

If a private school receives state money they still have to take the same test as public schools, therefore they would be included in the ranking.

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Makes me think the teachers in the state are cooking the books

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The teachers don’t have the ability to cook the books without a huge risk of losing their jobs. The state, however, can easily manipulate data.

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You learn a lot more reading the 10 commandments than you learn trying to read a pride flag

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