Jindal continues quest to gut education
First he signed a bill allowing creationism to be presented in science classrooms. Then he signed a voucher scholarship bill. Now he has cut $2.5 million from Turn on To Learning.
What is Turn on To Learning?
The TOTL program was instituted by Governor Kathleen Blanco as a research project to measure the effectiveness of 1-to-1 laptop initiatives in the 6th grade classroom. It is the former governor’s dream that the program will prove to be so valuable that schools, school districts, and whole states would wish to join in such a leading-edge project.
I guess Jindal doesn’t see the need for fancy pants technology in the classroom (since his end goal seems to be an elimination of public schools that would use this technology anyway).
Maybe Jindal just didn’t like the fact that the program was Blanco’s. (You know, cause according to all the Blanco haters she didn’t do anything right as Governor).
And while this has nothing to do with education, $100,000 was also cut from Louisiana’s Habitat for Humanity. You know, because Habitat for Humanity hasn’t done anything substantial for Louisiana at all… especially in the last 3 years or so.