Bobby Jindal in Forbes Magazine
On Education:
If it's not about student achievement, what's it about?
Everybody says they're for great teachers, but to be honest look at how we hire, fire, pay and promote our teachers today. So in Louisiana we decided to do something about that. We said "wouldn't it be special, wouldn't it be great if we actually
hired, fired and promoted and compensated our teachers based on how well students are doing rather than simply how long teachers have been breathing in the classroom?"We've radically changed our tenure laws, our hiring laws, our firing laws, our
compensation laws to link teacher advancement to student achievement. Unions didn't like that. They said we don't have any problem with you evaluating teachers; we just don't want it to be tied so closely to student achievement.
It's like going to a football game and saying: don't worry about the score at the end of the game. If it's not about student achievement, what's it about?
Source: Forbes Magazine on 2014 CPAC convention
Jun 24, 2015
On Education:
Money follows the child, instead of child following money
Jindal said at CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference, in March 2014, "We said we've got to make the dollars follow the child instead of forcing the child to follow the dollar. Now what does that mean? That means that every child learns
differently. Some children will do great in a public school, some children will do great in an online program, some children will do great in charter schools, parochial schools, dual-enrollment programs, but we trust parents to make the best decisions
for their children. In New Orleans, 90% of our kids are in charter schools. We have doubled the percentage of kids doing reading and math on grade level in just five years. We've done course choice, we've done course choice so kids can start
in public schools and take private courses throughout the day, but we've also established a statewide scholarship program so kids can go to the best schools selected by their parents. Now the unions didn't like this either."
Source: Forbes Magazine "2016 Candidates Want You to Know" series
Jun 24, 2015
On Education:
Shrink Dept. of Education, and reduce its power
Jindal said at the Republican Leadership Summit, in April 2015, "I think we need to return the federal department of education back to its original intended purpose. It needs to be shrunken in size, in funding, in power.
And it needs to focus on deregulation, transparency and true civil rights, true civil rights enforcement."
Source: Forbes Magazine "2016 Candidates Want You to Know" series
Jun 24, 2015
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