La. House Ed Chair Nancy Landry Wants to Pay Teachers Less | deutsch29

La. House Ed Chair Nancy Landry Wants to Pay Teachers Less | deutsch29:

La. House Ed Chair Nancy Landry Wants to Pay Teachers Less

 Rep. Nancy Landry (R-Lafayette) is the 2016 chair of Louisiana’s House Education Committee.

In 2012, Landry was responsible for the motion to require teachers who attended House education hearings to first tell what kind of leave they had taken from their classrooms in order to be present at a public hearing held in the middle of the school day.

No other Louisiana legislative committee before or since has required members of the public who wished to speak before a legislative committee to declare the details of how they came to be present before the committee.

Landry could have offered a motion to reconvene education hearings at a time when school was not in session, but she did not do so.

Now, in 2016, she is the House Ed chair, compliments of House Speaker, Taylor Barras (R-New Iberia).

As of this writing, Landry has only a single piece of prospective education legislation on file for the regular 2016 session, HB 392, “Provides relative to the reduction of teacher salaries under certain circumstances.”

Yep. Landry is seeking to open a wide door to cut teacher pay.

The bill is less than two pages long, but in it, Landry adds wording that would allow a district to cut teacher salaries across the board and allow for reduction in salary if the district decides to transfer a teacher to a lower-paying position.

Below is the text of HB 392 in full. The underlined sections are those that Landry wants added:

2016 Regular Session

HOUSE BILL NO. 392

BY REPRESENTATIVE NANCY LANDRY

TEACHERS/SALARY: Provides relative to the reduction of teacher salaries under certain

circumstances

AN ACT

To amend and reenact R.S. 17:418(C)(1) and (3), relative to salaries for teachers and other

school employees; to authorize the reduction of salaries for teachers and other school

employees in certain circumstances; and to provide for related matters.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:

Section 1. R.S. 17:418(C)(1) and (3) are hereby amended and reenacted to read as

follows:

418. Salaries; teachers and other school employees

* * *

C.(1) The amount of the annual salary paid to a teacher or other school employee in any school year shall not be reduced below the amount of such 

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