Your editor has long criticized the law's Highly Qualified Effective Teacher provision for being a rather wishy - washy element that merely allowed states and districts to simply
allow laggard teachers to keep their jobs by magically certifying them as high quality.
The state's governor, Bobby Jindal, is looking to further burnish the state's efforts on the
teacher quality front this week with his proposal to eliminate near - lifetime employment for
laggard teachers with unsatisfactory ratings on the state's new
teacher evaluation system, while pushing further on expanding charters by
allowing successful charter operators to expand without having to go through the current approval process, and
allowing the state education department to authorize charters throughout the state (and thus, ending efforts by traditional districts to restrict school choice within their boundaries).