America's Education Watch
  • Home
    • About Me
    • If You Need A Lawyer
  • ADHD/ADD
    • Vaccination Danger
  • AMERICAN DECEPTION
  • Back to Basics
  • IB Program
  • JEB BUSH
  • Jeb Bush Timeline
  • EDUCATION TIMELINE
  • RESCUING OUR CHILDREN
    • "Public School Exit"
    • Bad for Education >
      • Against the Law
      • COMMON CORE
      • CCSS
      • CONTENT
      • *REAGAN* Years
      • Robert Muller Schools
      • SCIENCE
      • WORLD CORE CURRICULUM
      • Curriculum Matters
      • DeVos
      • Frankfurt Schools
      • SOIL
  • CRIMES of the EDUCATORS
  • SCHOOL WORLD ORDER
  • GREAT RESET
  • MAURICE STRONG
  • Children's Voices Blog
  • *Vouchers - Danger*
  • 13th Amendment
  • Alternative Education
  • America
  • Agenda 21
  • Agenda 2030 & Before Scam
  • Alpha Phonics
  • BETSY DeVOS
  • BEWARE!
  • Blaine Amendment
  • Blended v. Hybrid
  • *Books - Good*
    • Books - Bad >
      • Truth in Textbooks
    • Objectionable Textbook Materials
  • CFR
  • Carnegie/Rockefeller Edu
  • Change Agents
    • ECRI Training
  • Charlotte Iserbyt
  • Charlottesville
  • CRITICAL RACE THEORY
  • Charter/Choice School
  • Charter *Failures*
    • CONCEPT SCHOOLS
    • FLORIDA
    • GEORGIA
    • OHIO
    • PENNSYLVANIA
  • Child/Forced Labor
    • "Child Safety Matters"
  • Classical Edu
  • Communism
  • Cost of CCSS
  • COMMUNITY ED/COPS
    • EFFECTIVE SCHOOLS
  • Data Mining
  • Diane Ravitch
  • Documents
  • EDU of SEX
  • E.D. Hirsch
  • ESSA
    • Medicalization of Education
    • Race To the Top
  • FAMILY
  • FLORIDA EDU
    • Green Schools
    • RTTT
  • FOSTER CARE
  • GATES the Monster
  • Global Education Institute for Teachers
  • Goodlad not Good
  • Gulen Charter
    • List of Schools
    • Bought Elected's
    • Characteristics
    • Cosmos Foundation
    • FETO
    • FLORIDA
    • Gulen Non-Profits >
      • Atlantic Institute
      • Peace Island Institute
  • Guests
    • Alex Newman
    • Anita Hoge
    • Ann Herzer
    • A. Patrick Huff
    • Berit Kjos
    • Martin Cothran
    • Dennis Cuddy
    • Judith Reisman
    • Dr. Rick Rigsby
    • Kelleigh Nelson
    • Sam Blumenfeld
  • HATE of ISLAM
    • Those in U.S.
    • HATEM BAZIAN
  • Hegelian Dialectic
  • Hero's Truth
  • Home School
    • Curriculum Roadmap
    • Red/White/Blue Schoolhouses
  • K-5 Edu
    • CLIMATE CHANGE
    • Pre-K Assault
    • Kindergarten
  • MARC TUCKER
    • YONG ZHAO
  • Master *Plan*
  • Mastery Learning
  • NARA
  • Nationalized Education
  • NEA
  • New Orleans
  • News
  • "No Excuses/No Nonsense"
  • PORN N SCHOOLS
  • OBE
  • Opt Out
  • Parental Rights
    • HSLDA
  • PROMISE PROGRAM
  • Race As Social Justice
  • Reagan Back Door
  • Regional Labs
  • Russian Agreements
  • Safety
  • Schoolhouse Home
  • School, Inc.
  • School-To-Work Act
  • Skull & Bones
  • Special Educ
  • TWINS
  • UNCONSTITUTIONAL
  • UN/UNESCO
    • EDUCATION FOR ALL
    • EDU for GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP
  • US/RUSSIA Relations
  • Videos
  • Children's Voices Sing
  • *Mailing List*
  • BLOG ARTICLES
  • History Pieces
  • Liberty

DeVos Pal, Eddie Rispone: School Vouchers Give Public Schools “Influence” to Not “Go Out of Business.” by Mercedes Schneider

Eddie Rispone is the former chair of the Louisiana Federation for Children (LFC), a state branch of the American Federation for Children (AFC), the school choice organization formerly chaired by US ed sec, Betsy DeVos, and also the former treasurer of the Louisiana Federation for Children Action Fund PAC.
Rispone is in the November 16, 2019, runoff for Louisiana governor against incumbent John Bel Edwards.
In his views on education, Rispone follows the lead of DeVos.
In this June 2016 video, LFC chair Rispone is pitching for Louisiana school vouchers.

One month later, in July 2016, I posted about Louisiana’s voucher program, in a post entitled, “About the Louisiana Voucher Program, Where Failure Really Is an Option.”
In closing, a few points:
  • The 7,807 voucher students who qualify based on income are not all new to the program. Only 1,420 are noted as new applicants for 2016-17.
  • Only 588 students applying for 2016-17 vouchers attended a local-board-operated public school in 2015-16. That does not even average to 9 students per school district. (Louisiana has 69 local school districts.) However…
  • …Louisiana vouchers are not popular statewide. New Orleans and Baton Rouge are the principal cities where students are using vouchers.
  • Most Louisiana vouchers are being used at Catholic schools.
  • Most voucher students are elementary school students, and the Louisiana voucher program appears to be dependent upon first-time kindergarteners for its survival.
Now, all of this choice is supposed to pay off in the corporate-reform currency of success, the *high test score.* But high test scores are not a hallmark of the Louisiana voucher program, and they certainly are not a hallmark for the all-charter New Orleans RSD whose would-be students are grossly over-represented among voucher users– which only serves to prove that what matters is choice for choice’s sake– and that failure really is an option.
In May 2019, Louisiana’s school voucher program was featured on New Orleans Public Radio for the failure that it is— and by this time, DeVos was trying to distance herself from that failure by terming Louisiana’s voucher program as “not well conceived.”
And from a May 2019 nola.com article featuring Rispone:
Of the $1 million he’s spent on political causes since 2015, records show $600,000 has gone to political action committees backing candidates, regardless of their party affiliation, who support charters and the state school voucher program.
Rispone said he supports “school choice” because he thinks it will lead to a better-educated workforce, which would benefit Louisiana’s business climate. He grew up in a working-class household and attributes his success in part to attending Catholic schools, an opportunity he worries is out of reach for many families today.
A recent investigation by NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune and WVUE Fox 8 concluded that students enrolled in private schools using the state voucher program, which Rispone has championed, often perform poorly on standardized tests. The private schools they attend are often considered “failing” by the state education department.
In Rispone’s mind, only traditional public schools can go out of business. Not vouchers.
Eddie Rispone: School choice ideologue.
Just like Betsy.
 I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything,  but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. What I can do, I should do. And what I should do, by the grace of God, I will do. - Edward Evertt Hale

Most of the kids graphics scattered throughout this website came from 
https://www.sassycherylsstamps.com/collections/brand-new​ They have been purchased from the creator and if you wish to use them please contact her.

FAIR USE NOTICE:  This site contains copyrighted material and the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner, however, credit has been given either by name, link to website or both. We have purchased material of which needed to be and was required. When given the open option of saving material we have done so and given credit if we knew who credit should be given to. 
Since the owner of this website is responsible for the use of any content, we demand you contact this owner asking permission to use any information provided here. We believe we are making "'fair use" of any copyrighted material as is provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have a desire to learn and additionally share the information.  For more information click here.  If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for profit, you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to:  https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/107​

© 2010 - 2021 Americas Education Watch/AmericaIsMyName  All Rights Reserved unless noted otherwise by the Author.