Governor Edwards said he would call for the overhaul of the states voucher program because it was poorly conceived, implemented without the proper checks and balances, lacks oversight and made reference to the latest reports that out lined the problems of the program. The program cost the state $40 million a year and serves approximately 6900 students in private schools.
Former Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal's administration created the program claiming it would help those students in failing public schools to attend private schools and pursue a quality education. That thinking was severely flawed and underscores how little Jindal and his administration understood education. The first order of business would be to make those failing public schools better and productive, demand that it do so and use the money and what ever it takes to make it happen. Instead, they threw millions of education dollars to private schools where most of those schools (according to the report) who received voucher money were failing schools themselves in the 2017-2018 school year.
The people should remember that during Bobby Jindal's time in office, he and the republican controlled legislature cut funding education almost every year to balance the state budget and still failed to do so. The bottom line concerning the $40 million voucher program is that it should be regulated with checks and balances and regular oversight and the state should never overlook the fact that it has the responsibility to see that the public school system is healthy and productive. One that serves the needs of the student and that the teachers and schools be given the necessary support to make it happen.
That is the best way to keep the cost of the voucher program for private schools at a reasonable level with the aim of reducing the need for the voucher program. The solution is very elementary, and that's no pun.
This commentary written by Joe Lorio
Saturday, June 22, 2019
Another Sad Episode Of Trump's Failed Immigration Rhetoric and His Lacking Of An Immigration Plan and Policy
Conditions at the U.S. border are becoming worse every day because of the record number of illegals and an influx of young children. Border facilities can not cope with the health needs of those children and do not have the capacity to handle them. As a result several young children have died and many are sick and with out needed medical attention.
That prompted acting Customs and Border Protection Commish John Sanders to tell the Associated Press that congress must pass the $4.6 billion in emergency funding or more kids might die. Sanders also said, what occurred that was something that impacted me profoundly. U.S. Border Patrol Stations are no place for children. They are bare bones holding facilities meant for swift processing. But because the entire system is over whelmed, Border Patrol is routinely holding children longer.
And it is all taking place on President Trump's watch because of his failure to have a policy or plan to submit to congress for comprehensive immigration reform. The President only has his rhetoric and his orders to separate children from their parents at the border has made the situation worse. The President is still under court order to bring those children that were separated back to their parents. Twenty nine months in office, where 24 of those months congress was controlled by the republican party and Trump and the GOP punted on immigration legislation and the immigration crisis they said existed. This is the same trumpet man who said during the 2016 campaign he would address the immigration problem after the election. Yeah right.
President Obama's administration handled the immigration problem better and the democratic controlled U.S. House which took over in January 2019 passed one piece of immigration legislation that the republican controlled Senate failed to act on. Trump and the republican rhetoric on immigration is just that. The bottom line concerning immigration is that the republican party could care less. Their do nothing record on the issue speaks loud and clear. And at this time President Trump is the do nothing republican leader.
This commentary written by Joe Lorio
That prompted acting Customs and Border Protection Commish John Sanders to tell the Associated Press that congress must pass the $4.6 billion in emergency funding or more kids might die. Sanders also said, what occurred that was something that impacted me profoundly. U.S. Border Patrol Stations are no place for children. They are bare bones holding facilities meant for swift processing. But because the entire system is over whelmed, Border Patrol is routinely holding children longer.
And it is all taking place on President Trump's watch because of his failure to have a policy or plan to submit to congress for comprehensive immigration reform. The President only has his rhetoric and his orders to separate children from their parents at the border has made the situation worse. The President is still under court order to bring those children that were separated back to their parents. Twenty nine months in office, where 24 of those months congress was controlled by the republican party and Trump and the GOP punted on immigration legislation and the immigration crisis they said existed. This is the same trumpet man who said during the 2016 campaign he would address the immigration problem after the election. Yeah right.
President Obama's administration handled the immigration problem better and the democratic controlled U.S. House which took over in January 2019 passed one piece of immigration legislation that the republican controlled Senate failed to act on. Trump and the republican rhetoric on immigration is just that. The bottom line concerning immigration is that the republican party could care less. Their do nothing record on the issue speaks loud and clear. And at this time President Trump is the do nothing republican leader.
This commentary written by Joe Lorio
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