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Quin Hillyer: BESE threatens to make high school diplomas meaningless

Por: The Advocate Opinion July 30, 2023

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Former President George W. Bush was right, on the education front, to blast what he called “the soft bigotry of low expectations.” Now the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education is doing worse than that: It wants to promote the false harmony of no expectations.On July 20, BESE officially published a that would even if they repeatedly fail the state’s graduation tests. Those tests already feature absurdly low requirements for... + full article



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