2007 Assessment Document Dropout 
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 7, 2018
In the mid-2000s, Louisiana implemented high-stakes tests known as Louisiana Educational Assessment Program, or LEAP, which required fourth and eighth graders to show that they were grade-level proficient. Louisiana had long erred on the side of social promotion, often passing underachievers through school despite low reading and math levels.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 16, 2018
That there aren’t enough seats in schools like Essex Tech for every student who wants one is a credit to the model, and to career and technical education’s evolution, said David Driscoll, who served as Massachusetts’ education commissioner from 1999 to 2007. Historical documents and literary fiction make up the curriculum.
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