BATON ROUGE (AP) — Superintendent of
Education John White has delayed plans to unveil his recommendations for
grading Louisiana's
fragmented system of publicly funded prekindergarten and early
childhood education programs.
White was expected to discuss the
performance standard framework with the Board of Elementary and
Secondary Education next
week. But he said Wednesday he's pushing that back until BESE's
December meeting because he wants more time to meet with people
and work on the plans.
A new law pushed by Gov. Bobby Jindal earlier this year required the development of a common assessment and grading system
for early childhood programs scattered across agencies.
White says his department is wrestling with questions of how to assess academic progress for young children of different ages
and what sorts of consequences should be attached to the standards.