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As the local attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., Benjamin L. Hooks, "Birth and Separation of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund", Crisis 1979 86(6): 218–220. 0011-1422 Tureaud successfully obtained equal pay for Louisiana's African American teachers and the admission of qualified students to state ...
Louisiana students and teachers will begin the school year with a cell phone ban and LGBTQ restrictions among the new laws taking effect this month.
United Teachers of New Orleans (UTNO) is a labor union representing teachers and other educational workers in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. It is an affiliate of the Louisiana Federation of Teachers (LFT), American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the AFL-CIO .
Louisiana State Representative Dodie Horton introduced the bill to the Louisiana House of Representatives, describing the Ten Commandments as the basis of all laws. After passing the Committee on Education in a 10–3 vote, [4] the bill was signed into law by Louisiana governor Jeff Landry on June 19, 2024. [5]
A group of Louisiana parents and civil rights organizations are suing the state over its new law that requires all public classrooms to display the Ten Commandments.
Sarah Towles Reed (March 8, 1882 – May 8, 1978) was an American teacher and labor activist. Reed founded the first teachers union in New Orleans and organized her colleagues to fight for equitable pay for women teachers and for Black teachers.
Louisiana has become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom, the latest move from a GOP-dominated Legislature pushing a conservative ...
In 2024, Dier filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana against Governor Jeff Landry regarding House Bill 71, which mandates that teachers display the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms, on the grounds that the law violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment of the U.S ...