A new report from the Heritage Foundation ranks Louisiana among the Top Ten states for “Educational Freedom.” State Education superintendent Dr. Cade Brumley says Louisiana’s Number 9 ranking is a great place to be in the first-ever such report by Heritage. He explains what it meant by Educational freedom…
“Empowering parents to make decisions around their kids’ education, providing public transparency on how decisions are made and being good stewards of public dollars and investing in education appropriately,” he says.
Brumley says Heritage Foundation gives high marks for empowering parental choice, in transparency in education policy-making and spending public dollars wisely and properly. The Heritage report ranks Louisiana among the Top 20 for both school choice and transparency. Brumley says both are important to him as the state’s Top Educator…
“Making sure that parents are able to choose the school that fits for their child, whether that’s within the traditional neighborhood school, or whether it’s a public Charter School, or potentially a scholarship to a non-public school or a Learning Pod or even home schooling.”
The Heritage “Education Freedom Report Card” comes as the Department of Education observes Celebrate Freedom Week. Brumley says the recognition by heritage is good, but there’s more progress to be made…
“We want to be a part of that. We want to break down barriers that prevent interested, competent individuals from being class room teachers.”
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