The state’s top school board has backed nearly four dozen organizations to offer courses to Louisiana’s public school students through online classes and other nontraditional means. Today’s decision comes despite a judge’s ruling last week that the program’s planned financing is unconstitutional. Superintendent of Education John White is recommending 45 course providers be given contracts to participate in Louisiana’s new Course Choice program, scheduled to begin next year. BESE backed the list in an 8-2 vote. Critics say BESE shouldn’t approve course providers, since a state judge determined the state couldn’t pay for the program through the public school funding formula. That ruling is being appealed. White says the law creating Course Choice requires BESE to move forward. He says funding decisions can be made later.
BESE moves ahead with Course Choice program
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