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Contact your legislators now to register strong opposition to these bills! The LFT points out:

These bills will use the funding process to virtually abolish public education. Your tax dollars will be spent on private and religious schools, virtual schools, home schools and charter schools created by corporations, businesses and industry providers.

These bills violate the State Constitution, which says that Minimum Foundation Program funds can only be used for “public elementary and secondary schools.”

Tax money approved by voters for local salaries, construction and maintenance will go to these schools, even if the schools are in a different city or parish.

The only requirement to teach in these schools will be a Bachelor’s degree – no certification will be necessary.

The only fiscal oversight for these new charter schools is an annual report to the unelected charter authorizer, not to BESE or the local school board.

Online teachers from anywhere in the world will automatically be certified as Louisiana teachers. These online teachers will NOT be subject to Louisiana teacher evaluations or accountability.

The reason expertise will not be needed is that teachers will be basically coaching students for a standard test.

It is really difficult to teach at the university level with students who have been prepared in this way — not to learn material or think about it or use it or understand it, but to repeat a series of standard statements about it.

One of my colleagues got a student paper on a famous Puritan sermon, written by a well known and well educated minister, which was to have been a close reading, but consisted of a set of platitudes about how God was kindness and this author clearly had not understood Christianity.

That is what I mean. Write your legislators. Call them. Oppose these bills.

Axé.