White was appointed to the state superintendent position in January 2012 by the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education.
Superintendent White and his team have also led the post-Katrina renovation and unification of schools in New Orleans and the creation of the Baton Rouge Achievement Zone.
Five thousand more students in that class earned the state's TOPS scholarship, and 5,000 more enrolled in college after graduating high school.
In that time, the number of Louisiana students earning Advanced Placement early college credits has increased by 167 percent, and the state leads the nation in the percentage of high school seniors completing an application for higher education financial aid.
[10] White's writings[13] on education have been published in The Washington Post,[14] the Wall Street Journal,[15] the Daily Beast,[16] The Hill,[17] and the Brookings Institution’s Evidence Speaks.