Ninety-five Louisiana Department of Education (LDOE) Documents
There is more to a website than the information accessed by clicking its active links. This I learned years ago in my dealings with statistics software that utilizes both windows and code.
Armed with such knowledge, yesterday I spent six hours combing the Louisiana Department of Education (LDOE) website searching for useful information “hidden in plain sight,” so to speak.
My hours on the LDOE site yielded some informative finds. In the reformer-touted spirit of “transparency,” I would like to share in this post what amounts to a small library of 95 LDOE documents.
This post is not the result of my hacking into LDOE. For none of these files was I asked to provide a password.
As for the 95 files below, I spent an additional six hours converting and cataloguing. I saved all of the files to my blog. Thus, access is no longer LDOE-dependent.
Some of these files might be publicly available elsewhere. Given the tight rein White has on all information LDOE, I think that much of what I share here has not been made public until now.
I considered waiting to publicize the files until I was able to write about each; however, I thought it better to offer the information freely to any who wishes to read them. Also, I know that my fellow bloggers and researchers will make fine use of the wealth of information in these documents.
In reading such information, I certainly have learned more about John White’s determination to promote charters, vouchers, and online education companies to the undeniable detriment of the community school.
I have tried to give the files names that clearly convey the content. In some cases, I named a file based upon included information that caught my attention.
All of the files are alphabetized according to my newly-created file names.
Happy Transparent Reading.
2012-13 MFP Extended School Year Final Allocations
2013 Tech Contract Info for PK-12
Act 1 Compensation Overview for Charter Managers
Charter Letter of Intent Follow-up
Course Choice Call for Providers
Course Choice schools and seats 2012
Demand for Local Charter Authorizers
Early Childhood Data Collection memo
EOC percentages by dist and school 2012
FY2012 SIG 1003(g) Funds– Eligible Schools
FY2012-13 Charter Balanced Budget Statement
FY2012-13 Early Childhood Funding
Gates-funded Common Core Networking Conference
important to hold constant… school performance
Jan 2013 Bulletin 741 Revision Notice of Intent
June 2012 Alg I EOC Dist Summary
June 2012 Biology EOC Dist Summary
June 2012 Eng II EOC Dist Summary
June 2012 Geometry EOC Dist Summary
LDOE CCSS Resources (Student Achievement Partners)
Learning to Enroll Voucher Students
March 2013 MFP Adjustment memo
MFP Annual Transfer Amount (Feb 2013)
MFP Budget State Level Compar Sept 2012
MFP Course Choice Enroll Feb 2013
MFP Course Choice Enroll Sept 2012
MFP Distrib and Adjust Feb 2013
MFP Distrib and Adjust Sept 2012
Nonpublic Eligibility Certification
Nonpublic School Eligibility Walkthrough
Nonpublic School Teacher Cert Requirements
Pelican Institute Voucher Promo
Projected Enrollment for MFP thru 2017
Sept 2012 Course Choice Enroll by School
SIG 1003(g) Funds– Looks like NCLB consequences
Six Years of ACT Results 2007-12
deutsch29: Mercedes Schneider's Blog 
Do any of these documents disclose illegality?
J. H. Underhill
JH, please explain “disclose legality.”
Wow. What a trove of information.
Glad you saved these documents to your own site. LDE scrubs the site EVERY time we post something in our PEACCS-LA Facebook group that they feel is threatening. (Their trolls abound.) If they have nothing to hide, and there is nothing wrong with what they’re doing, why delete documents, revise verbiage, or delete entire web pages? Thanks much for what you do here – I often share your posts with others.
Mercedes – you are truly amazing! So grateful to have you on our side of this fight!
Yeoman work. Not easy, not fun, except delight in uncovering mischief.