Flournoy Questions Voucher Program
BY MARK BALLARD
February 14, 2012
Gov. Bobby Jindal’s school voucher plan won’t work, the head of nonprofit advocacy group said Monday.
The money available will not be enough, plus the Jindal administration does not support imposing the same accountability standards on private schools that are required for public schools, said Melissa Flournoy, the former state representative who is director of the Coalition for Louisiana Progress.
The group was incorporated in 2005 as a nonprofit that says it aims to mobilize progressive leaders and activists in Louisiana.
“They (students) could actually end up in schools that are worse than what they had in the public sector system,” Flournoy told the Press Club of Baton Rouge. “At the end of the day vouchers, however appealing they might sound, they will not be a viable public sector response.”
