Editorial: Louisiana should not put education money at risk for dumb career diploma

Source: nola.com Posted By: Nishel R...5324 days ago

State education officials say they are working to minimize the damage to academic standards from a new so-called career diploma created by the Legislature this year.



Lawmakers and Gov. Bobby Jindal ignored the negative ramifications for students when they created a diploma that allows children to fail either the math or English portion of the eighth-grade LEAP test and still move on to ninth grade.

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