Preparing for the legislative session, state Education Superintendent Paul Pastorek concluded that the biggest problem facing public schools was parish school boards, LaPolitics columnist John Maginnis writes. Its members served too long, were paid too much and meddled in day-to-day matters that should be left to parish superintendents. To change all that, he got behind a package of legislative bills to impose term limits on school board members, to restrict their pay to $50 per meeting and to prohibit them from trying to influence administrators’ hiring and firing decisions. A couple of North Louisiana legislators had a different view of the most pressing problem with education, the same that has plagued Louisiana for decades: that nearly 40 percent of high schoolers drop out or fail to graduate within four years. To read the full column, click here.
Viewpoint: What’s it going to take to improve education?
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