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Posted on 7/17/25 at 2:00 pm to RobbBobb
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In the N.O. thread about this you argued with me for pages when I said charters were independent of board overwatch
The school board/district authorizes some charters. BESE also authorizes charters. School boards can rescind or terminate charters or extend them.
quote:it looks like the Baker school board authorized these charters.
Now youre telling me thats what is happening in all of Bakers schools
Posted on 7/17/25 at 2:05 pm to 4cubbies
3 former mayor/presidents of Baton Rouge came from Baker.
What the hell happened to Baker ?
Posted on 7/17/25 at 2:09 pm to PUB
As opposed to the bloated local school districts with layers and layers of do-nothing admin employees? frick that. It costs EBR almost 14k to educate a student in their system. It costs me about the same money for my kid to go to the Catholic high school. Don’t talk to me about money being siphoned off by CEOs- it happens in plain sight every year in EBR.
Posted on 7/17/25 at 2:12 pm to ValZacs
I don’t really know much about Baker.
This morning I saw a headline about GEO opening a charter school in Baker and I almost had a heart attack.
The GEO group is a for-profit prison scheme. Upon investigating, the GEO school in Baker is something else not affiliated with the prison industrial complex.
This morning I saw a headline about GEO opening a charter school in Baker and I almost had a heart attack.
The GEO group is a for-profit prison scheme. Upon investigating, the GEO school in Baker is something else not affiliated with the prison industrial complex.
Posted on 7/17/25 at 2:39 pm to SantaFe
Baker was a great bedroom community for decades. Then it slowly shifted. Then it shifted massively to where it is now. First hand experience. Education system has/had a lot to so with it. Directly and indirectly.
Posted on 7/17/25 at 2:44 pm to ValZacs
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First hand experience. Education system has/had a lot to so with it. Directly and indirectly.
Would you say education declined after Baker split into its own school district?
Posted on 7/17/25 at 2:45 pm to 4cubbies
Absolutely made it worse, but it was declining rapidly before hand
Posted on 7/17/25 at 2:47 pm to ValZacs
What do you think caused it?
Posted on 7/17/25 at 2:57 pm to 4cubbies
A lot of it had to do with what dallastiger said earlier- delays. So many people moved out, the old guard was dying off, land locked, not much room for expansion, no oversight worth a hoot, etc. Loss of tax revenue ensued-baker has city sales tax. I mean they have speed traps at every single entry point to the city, every one.
Posted on 7/17/25 at 3:05 pm to ValZacs
Just a pic of a baker schools bus my wife’s grandfather built for the school. Fyi
Posted on 7/17/25 at 3:09 pm to 4cubbies
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More obvious corruption in the great state of Louisiana.
I’m with ya cubbies - screw public schools and all the public school employees. Return the taxes to the people and let parents decide if and how their kids get educated. Can’t be worse than what we got now.
Posted on 7/17/25 at 3:22 pm to Flats
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Holy shite you're retarded. Incorporating into a non-profit doesn't mean a management company was involved. The school was and still is run by a board populated mainly by parents who receive no compensation.
You being a dumbass doesn't mean I'm being deceptive.
The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round...
Figured that was appropriate given the thread and the MO of the OP. What a disaster this thread is. Goodness. Another failed gotcha at every turn.
Posted on 7/17/25 at 7:50 pm to 4cubbies
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I don’t play the democrats vs republicans game
No, but you constantly play the Liberal nut vs. Normals game
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