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Friday, May 25, 2012

Louisiana Educator: Romney Adopts Jindal Reform Plan

Louisiana Educator: Romney Adopts Jindal Reform Plan:


Romney Adopts Jindal Reform Plan

IMPORTANT INVITATION: All readers of The Louisiana Educator are invited to immediately join our new data base of email contacts that I am naming The Defenders of Public Education. We need you now! It is 100% free! It is 100% confidential! Just send an email using your preferred email address, and zip code to:louisianaeducator@gmail.com. Your zip code will be used to list you and I hope many others according to legislative district so that I can send you timely, relevant information about your representative or senator's position on key education issues. You will also receive updates on critical BESE actions. From time to time I will ask our Defenders of Public Education to send an email or participate in efforts to influence legislative votes on critical education issues at the legislature. This will be done in cooperation with the Coalition for Louisiana Public Education and the established professional educator organizations of our state. The final decision will always be up to each contact member to do what he/she feels is appropriate. This is a way for educators to more effectively express the concerns of the education profession in Louisiana with greater unity.Through the actions of this group and the unified efforts of our educator organizations, educators could quickly become one of the most influential groups in the state. All educators, (teachers, administrators, school board