By JOY PULLMANN
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In the weeks between announcing the nation’s farthest-reaching education agenda and its reception in the Louisiana legislature upon opening March 12, Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal has departed from his usual consensus-building to take on teacher unions.
It’s hard to summarize Jindal’s education proposals—they’re so numerous, comprehensive, and built upon other states’ experience they might be described as a conservative policy wonk’s Christmas list.
They root up and re-seed the ground in myriad areas: the largest vouchers program in the country, for which half the state’s kids would be eligible; shifting teacher tenure and pay away from union-favored “step-and-lane” pay schedules, “last in, first out,” seniority rules, and lifetime job security. There are policies to create a statewide charter school explosion like that unique to New Orleans post-Katrina, as well as smaller-but-significant policies such as a Parent Trigger, letting kids who graduate high school early take their state education funds to college. His proposals would also grant far greater authority to local principals and superintendents in selecting personnel and managing money.
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