Educators in Louisiana will rally today against Bobby Jindal’s radical privatization “reforms.”
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TODAY at the Capitol — Unified Education Organizations to Address Jindal Agenda
WHO: Major State Education Organizations representing Louisiana public schools
WHAT: Press conference to announce unified opposition to re-enacting elements of Acts 1 and 2 of the 2012 Session
WHEN: TODAY — Tuesday, April 23, 2013 at 3 p.m.
WHERE: Steps of the Louisiana State Capitol — located at 900 N. 3rd Street in Baton Rouge
WHICH Organizations:
Coalition for Louisiana Public Education
Louisiana School Boards Association (LSBA)
Louisiana Association of School Superintendents (LASS)
Louisiana Association of School Executives (LASE)
Louisiana Association of Educators (LAE)
Louisiana Federation of Teachers (LFT)
An unprecedented alliance of education organizations will hold a joint press conference at 3 p.m. Tuesday, April 23, to announce their opposition to the re-enactment of elements of Governor Bobby Jindal’s education agenda.
Act 1 and Act 2 of the 2012 Legislative Session have both been declared unconstitutional by district courts.
Instead of working with stakeholders on meaningful, research-based education reform, the governor and his allies seem intent on rehashing the same failed policies that have frustrated educators and school boards around the state.
Leaders of organizations including the Louisiana Association of Educators (LAE), Louisiana Association of School Executives (LASE), Louisiana Association of School Superintendents (LASS), Louisiana Federation of Teachers (LFT), and Louisiana School Boards Association (LSBA) will announce their unity plans at the press conference.
Look for these contacts today at the Capitol, or call them for more details:
CONTACT: LSBA — Executive Director Scott Richard – (225)769-3191
LASS — President Mike Faulk – (225) 791-0365
LAE — Communications Specialist Ashley Davies – (225) 343-9243 ext. 119.
LFT — Director of Public Relations Les Landon – (225) 923-1037
Coalition for Louisiana Public Education — Founder/Chairman Jack Loup — 985-373-1781
— jackloup@wildblue.net
Thank you for your coverage,
Mary K. Bellisario
Member, Coalition for Louisiana Public Education
bayouduo@bellsouth.net
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Diane,
Could you help to encourage educators, parents and community members to attend the rally for Public Education in Olympia, WA. On April 27 at 9:30 a.m., WEA Representative Assembly delegates will stand on the capitol steps in the final hours of the legislative session to make one last stand for our students, our professions and our schools. Please join us!
https://www.facebook.com/events/239545506170761/
Thank you so much for all you do.
–Shannon Ergun
Candidate for NEA State Director, WA
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Education in Louisiana under Jindal and White is like the Twilight Zone taking place inside the Bermuda Triangle with a heaping load of corruption piled on top. How this pervasively criminal activity has managed to go on unchecked for so very long is disturbing to say the least. We must not allow anyone to forget that it is not just the leadership that are at fault, but the system that they put in place that allowed them to make such a monstrous mess out of Louisiana’s schools. Just as the reformers system coerces teachers into cheating, it enabled the leadership to act with impunity in their corruption since there is zero accountability at the top to offset their arrogant sense of entitlement as they make decisions for other peoples children and spend other peoples money.
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