State Education Superintendent Paul Pastorek took over 10 East Baton Rouge and Caddo parish public schools after they failed to meet state standards for years. Despite outcries from community activists and school board members, La Politics’ John Maginnis says the state did the right thing. “Students in schools that have failed should not be told to be more patient with the administrators who have let them down,” he says. “They deserve a new, intensive and sustained approach, and not after four more years.” Read the full column here.
(John Maginnis publishes LaPolitics Weekly, a newsletter on Louisiana politics, at LaPolitics.com.)
