re: EBR schools audit- 'troubling' discrepancies in district's academic record

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I haven't heard of any solutions from LSURussian,
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Then you have not been keeping up. I've listed what I would like to see done many times.

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There you go. Seriously, would you like accountabilty of the EBRSS, or John White or Bernard Taylor.

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My take is he is weak. That's fine. There is a place for him in this world, maybe even as a school superintendent somewhere. But not in a system with so much at stake for the community at large. He has shown himself to be in over his head. It is time for some real leadership. Of course that is generally lacking in our public officials in LA so I don't know why I would expect anything different in this case

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I believe the powers that be hired a puppet. It appears they got one. I hope I'm wrong, you are spot on. We need a real leader, an outsider, and someone who is for the kids and not the status quo.

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Seriously, would you like accountabilty of the EBRSS, or John White or Bernard Taylor.

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I would like accountability of all of the above.

John White has proven to be Jindal shill. I hope you realize that. His decisions have been very suspect and always tow the Jindal line to help Jindal get elected to higher office.

One nice thing about John White is if you don't like a decision he's made, just wait a few months. He'll probably change it based on opinion polls for his boss.

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There you go.

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I'm not going to repeat what I've already written many times just because someone new enters a SG thread.

You can use the search function and find my somewhat lengthy wish list for what I'd like citizens to do to improve the education system.

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John White has proven to be Jindal shill. I hope you realize that. His decisions have been very suspect and always tow the Jindal line to help Jindal get elected to higher office. One nice thing about John White is if you don't like a decision he's made, just wait a few months. He'll probably change it based on opinion polls for his boss.

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So anything White says should be ignored?

I feel a whole lot better now. I'll trust Pat Smith and Taylor who told us early all that it was all started by sneaky SG folk and that everything is in order.

Yea, that Bodi White is sure working overtime now. Besides stealing money, he's falsifying records too. He should be ashamed of himself.

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OH, yeah, I'm a liberal alright. Know how I know you're clueless???

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I didn't say you were a liberal, I said the tactics you use are straight out of the liberal playbook. Stop your lying you liar.

See how that works.

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This is another example of you lying. You take something I've written and completely distort it into a lie. This is one of the reasons I have attempted to ignore your posts. You just don't have any integrity. I'll try harder to ignore your posts in the future.

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I was obviously being sarcastic there because you refuse to address the actual report and you are obviously trying to tarnish it by blaming those directly and indirectly responsible for the errors found.

What you are ignoring is the report.

Instead you are trying to make the report personal by bringing personalities like John White into the discussion when the discussion should be about the facts and not about John White, Taylor, Smith or what Bodi White says.

The audit was a Dept. of Education audit.

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...in the state Department of Education’s audit of the East Baton Rouge Parish School system’s academic records

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The audit was instigated by a whistleblower...

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The audit began in January, after a whistleblower brought a number of concerns to state education officials. Among them was an allegation that a student had been allowed to graduate without meeting requirements. The whistleblower also claimed there was a lack of oversight and cheating in online courses. NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune was first to report that the state was going to conduct an audit.

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You have reported on this board that the overall grades for the EBR System have been improving. The report calls the grades into question.

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The discrepancies are particularly significant because at least some of the records discussed in the audit count toward the school's accountability rankings. The state’s A-F school performance scores given for high schools place a major emphasis on graduation rates, which make up 25 percent of a high school’s grade.

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But you aren't alone in trying to spin this audit as if it were nothing but a political witch hunt. Here is what some of your anti SG "allies" have to say;

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Belinda Davis, president of the parent and community group One Community, One School District, called the incident a “politically manufactured stunt.” Rep. Pat Smith, D-Baton Rouge, blamed it on the supporters of the effort to incorporate the city of St. George and form a new school district in the south part of the parish.

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But I'm not about name calling, and trying to divert the attention away from the real problem; here is what happened:

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In total, White said the department reviewed records for 362 students. A total of 25 percent of those records had “major errors,” the audit found.

The problems included students who were awarded credits in the state’s transcript system that were different from what was recorded by the school, as well as students who had different grades recorded in the state system. White said that in all of those cases, the grades were higher in the state system than they were at the district level.

“This erroneous record keeping appears to result from a negligent lack of internal controls and oversight at the central office, and in some cases, falsification at the school level,” the audit summary states.

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I suggest we quit the name calling and address the issues here. We both pay taxes in EBR Parish to the school system. We pay sales taxes and property taxes.

The difference is you want to stay in the system, while I want to be out of the system. Give me a good reason that this audit and the subsequent findings isn't a condemnation of the system and justification for first Baker, then Zachary, then Central and now SG to want out.

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Oh that's good!

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How about this one from the farkers. Could it be one of our most avid posters in action?

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You have disagreed with me numerous times in SG threads. That's why I called you a liar.

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FIFY

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You have reported on this board that the overall grades for the EBR System have been improving. The report calls the grades into question.

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This definitely implications for the grades assigned to those schools. I'm looking forward to seeing what "improvements" and safeguards they'll come up with by April 4th. They have incentive to lie in some cases, and it happens more often across the country than it should.

St. George backers want Taylor, other EBR school officials to resign