Big Victories for the Real Educators of Louisiana!
Yesterday an amazing series of events happened in the Louisiana House Education Committee. Due to the hundreds of emails and phone calls by the real educators of Louisiana (and the powerful evidence of incompetent implementation of the Act 54 evaluation system) , all three of the bills designed to circumvent the court decision striking down Act 1 of 2012 were pulled off the Committee agenda for the time being. This is the same committee that was stacked last year with solid Jindal supporters and which passed the entire Jindal "education deform" package last year even in the face of massive teacher protests. You may remember that Act 1 butchered the tenure law, took away a teacher's right to have personnel decisions reviewed by their school boards, established merit pay based on an untested and flawed evaluation system, and killed all seniority rights for reduction In force procedures based on the same flawed evaluation system.
In the morning HB 466 by Havard (My Representative I am proud to say) was passed by the Committee, which stops John White's radical revamp of the school grading system. The totally new rating system would have put more emphasis on college prep stuff such as ACT scores, and would have required that even special education students take the ACT for the purpose of grading schools and would have dropped all the
In the morning HB 466 by Havard (My Representative I am proud to say) was passed by the Committee, which stops John White's radical revamp of the school grading system. The totally new rating system would have put more emphasis on college prep stuff such as ACT scores, and would have required that even special education students take the ACT for the purpose of grading schools and would have dropped all the