Holly Boffy
Former BESE President and proponent for the graduation appeal process for seniors who fail the LEAP exam, Holly Boffy, said she’s disappointed Governor Jeff Landry immediately issued an executive order revoking the policy. Landry says his executive order maintains education standards.
“I don’t know of anyone who believes their child’s future should be determined based on one test. I also don’t know anyone who believes one point on one test should stand in the way of a child graduating from high school,” said Boffy.
Boffy, who’s term-limited encourages individuals to reach out to their legislators and ask them to consider legislation for an appeal process and to sign a petition at excellgrad.org.
“That we’ll give to legislators to let them know that the educators in schools, the families that are parenting these children all believe that kids should have multiple options in life,” said Boffy.
The policy went into effect in December of 2023 and while it was only available for a brief period, Boffy said several students were able to graduate as a result and many of them did so via the LEAP exam.
“And we saw a number of students who we thought would graduate through the appeal that actually were able to graduate outright because that stress was just not there,” said Boffy.
Boffy said the policy also changed educator behavior from the test-prep mentality to more of a life-prep approach to teaching.
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