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Sunday, February 23, 2014

Louisiana Educator: Jindal Loses Again

Louisiana Educator: Jindal Loses Again:



Jindal Loses Again

Please Help Make Sure He Continues to Lose



When Governor Jindal rammed through his brutal attack on teachers and public schools in the 2012 legislative session he was warned that his new laws violated the constitution, violated basic due process rights of teachers, and improperly usurped the authority of our elected school boards. But he decided to use the immense power of the governor's office to bully the legislature into taking away the tenure and seniority rights of teachers and much of the authority of our school boards to oversee the employment and dismissal of teachers.

This recent article  in the Monroe News Star explains how a district judge once again returned a verdict striking down one of Jindal's attacks on teachers. The Louisiana Association of Educators (LAE) initiated this lawsuit challenging the weakening of due process rights of teachers in Act 1 of 2012 for one of its members in Monroe. LAE president Debbie Meaux has pledged to continue the defense of LAE members who are being deprived of their rights by Jindals “deforms”. Judge Jones' ruling now