The Lincoln Parish School District (LPSD) will apparently take a budget hit of about $817 thousand for the 2012-2013 fiscal year, according to a preliminary budget letter obtained by Lincoln Parish News Online (LPNO).
See here the document.
According to the data, 129 Lincoln parish students were awarded scholarships to the New Living Word Ministries School located on West Barnett Springs Road in Ruston.
Each student represents $63 hundred in Minimum Foundation Program (MFP) funds. MFP is the formula that determines the cost to educate students at public elementary and secondary schools and defines state and local funding contributions to each district.
The amount represents about 1.2% of the total $68 million in expenditures of the district for FY 2011-2012.
08/10/2012 at 6:48 am |
Wonder why NLW didn’t accept students in grades tested by LEAP tests (voucher students have to take LEAP in grades tested in their “new school”)? Hmmmmmmmmmmm could it be Baldwin is afraid that scores will show he is not a miracle worker? Bobby J. has just made the Rev. Baldwin a very rich man.
08/12/2012 at 8:41 pm |
The state of Louisiana made Baldwin a very rich man years ago when he was awarded several million dollars in his wrongful termination suit against ULL. Personally I don’t think it’s about money with him; the man has an ego out of this world.
08/10/2012 at 11:36 am |
I wonder if there is any special expertise needed to administer the test? One assumes they don’t want the responsibility of being involved with the testing.
Are there actually 130 students going to the NLW School, or 130 positions approved by the State? If the school is substandard, are 130 children really going to be sent there by their parents anyway, presumably for a reason or reasons other than getting them a good education? To make Rev. Baldwin rich? What reason?
One of the assumptions of the choice movement is that, if poor parents had a choice (i.e. if they could afford it) they would take their children out of a failing or poor-quality public school and put them in a quality private/parochial school, like any sane, caring parent would, and this would put pressure on the failing or poor public school (and the politicians who are enabling its continued existence as such) to either shape up or everyone there lose their job. Now we have the possibility that, given a choice, some parents would put their kids in a pitiful excuse of a school, just for some offbeat reason? Hummm…
What is the tuition per year at Cedar Creek? If the parish is spending more than $6000 per child per year, what does Cedar Creek Spend? Is it less, and if it is, how do they do it, and why can’t the parish do it? Cedar Creek is not known as a failing or poor school, is it?
I understand CC won’t accept the vouchers. If I am wrong, tell me.
08/10/2012 at 11:39 am |
More questions come to mind: Whay is a school failing? Is it because it has poor teachers, poor administration? Is it because there is somethign wrong with the students? Does it have less money than other schools? What exactly is the problem, and can it be identified at each school and a plan made to correct it? Why are some schools failing and other schools not failing? Do some of the kids not care? Is is discipline problems? Exactly what is/are the problems?
08/10/2012 at 8:03 pm |
That is the number of vouchers that have been granted to applicants. Any certified teacher can administer the LEAP test after a 30 training by the guidance couselor. The issue I have is that Jindal is blaming all of the problems of failing schools on the teachers. I’m sorry but there are several that must share in the blame…….including the parents of the students. Teachers only have their students for around 7-8 hrs a day. that leaves 16 for mom and dad to assist in the educational process (which most do not), but yet the teachers job security and pay is not determined by the students (Many of whom that do not give a rip about school). There has to be a better way to fix education.
Any school accepting voucher students should also have to abide by the same accountability rules as public schools and at this point they don’t. At many of the private and parochial schools, the teachers are not even required to be certified…..but yet the public school teacher loses his/her certification after two “unsatisfactory” evaluations. The rules should be the same!
08/10/2012 at 8:04 pm |
should be “is NOW determined” …….sorry can’t type tonight
08/11/2012 at 8:13 am |
another typo I made……. should be “30minute training”
08/11/2012 at 9:58 pm |
I agree that the quality and backround of the students has a lot to do with the outcome of the school. As a society we have been condition not to say that someone can’t or won’t learn; that there are some students more intelligent than others; that some families could care less about education and do not support the schools in their effforts to educate. Years ago, the marginal students were not allowed to control the school; the schools were run for the good of the most students and the best students got all the possible advantage.
That the outcome of Cedar Creek is so good and it costs, what, $7000 per year vs the $10,000 the lincoln Parish public schools spend per child, is mostly I believe because of the support of the parents in the school’s efforts, and the presence of discipline which the State schols won’t allow.
People should put their kids where they will get the best possible education, period.