No New Normal in Louisiana Schools

12/03/2024

🚨🚨HEADS UP TEACHERS who are in Unions
Sen. Seabaugh

Requires yearly collective bargaining votes. If less than 60 vote to reauthorize, they have less than one month to get a new representative or lose their collective bargaining ability for one year.

https://www.legis.la.gov/legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1352661

SB 299

Sen. Seabaugh

Bars unions from representing employees in collective bargaining.

https://www.legis.la.gov/legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1352675

SB 315 and HB 668

Sen. Seabaugh and Rep. Michael Melerine

These companion bills largely gut disability benefits employers are on the hook for when workers are injured. It eliminates benefits if an injured worker "has the capacity to engage in any self-employment or occupation for wages” of any kind or if they have reached "maximum medical improvement."

https://www.legis.la.gov/legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1352708

https://www.legis.la.gov/legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1352345

HB 571

Rep. Raymond Crews

This bill “prohibits a public employer from entering into any employment contract with any public employee or labor organization” and declares any existing labor contracts null and void.

https://www.legis.la.gov/legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1351716

HB 572

Rep. Crews

This bill "prohibits a state, parish, city, town, or governmental body from recognizing any labor union or other employee association” for the purposes of collective bargaining.

https://www.legis.la.gov/legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1351715

HB 712

Rep. Crews

This bill bars school unions from using member dues for political activity.

https://www.legis.la.gov/legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1352625

24/01/2024

🚨🚨Children in Louisiana public K-12 schools are at risk when it comes to abuse by a school employee. Currently, school districts have policies that are not in line with mandatory reporting requirements when the abuser is a school employee.

For over a year we have informed the Louisiana Department of Education Superintendent, Dr. Cade Brumley, that the school district's policies on reporting child abuse are not correct. The current and past BESE board members have also been made aware of the incorrect reporting policies and practices. To date, the policies have not been corrected.

Despite a preponderance of evidence that mandatory reporting must be followed regardless of who the abuser is, it is the position of the State Superintendent and his executive counsel, that the districts do not have to follow mandatory reporting requirements when the abuser is a school employee.

We are asking you to please write to your representative and ask them to hold school districts accountable. Please ask legislators to ensure mandatory reporting policies are in line with state law & being followed. Please help protect our children of Louisiana by sending a quick email to your legislators.

Link:

https://actionnetwork.org/letters/enforcement-of-mandatory-reporting-in-k-12-public-schools-for-children-in-louisiana?source=direct_link&

Please Provide Oversight and Enforcement of Special Education in Louisiana.

25/09/2023

September 20, 2023
Louisiana Auditor’s report on LDOE”s

COMPLAINT PROCESS FOR STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES RECEIVING SPECIAL EDUCATION SERVICES
LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

01/08/2023

Dr. Brumley through the Louisiana Department of Education has issued a MEMORANDUM:
DATE: August 1, 2023
SUBJECT: Serving Students with Disabilities

Students with disabilities deserve our best efforts in meeting their individualized needs. Responsive educators provide necessary resources. support. and high expectations. which promote the success of every student. All Louisiana students benefit from access to high-quality teaching and learning aimed at creating a lifetime of opportunity.

The Louisiana Department of Education (LDOB) looks forward to the continued partnership with school systems, families, and communities in the advancement of our statewide strategy to increase academic outcomes for students with disabilities. To begin this school year, I'm sharing key DOE resources, supports, and potential oversight consequences for systems.

Click or tap to view this file.

31/07/2023

🤔 Nate Levenson: Advising Louisiana Classrooms from His Wealth of Nonexperience.
The Louisiana Department of Education (LDE) is spending millions for advice from a man with no education degrees, no classroom experience, and no site-level administrative experience: Nate Levenson.

Mostly Education; a Smattering of Politics & Pinch of Personal

12/04/2023

Parents allege special education instructors abused their children

08/04/2023

The parents of siblings with autism have filed a federal lawsuit against the St. Tammany Parish School Board claiming two former Woodlake Elementary instructors verbally and...