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In 2007, the board appointed Paul Pastorek, a former BESE member, as the Louisiana state education superintendent upon the death of Cecil J. Picard. Pastorek resigned as superintendent in 2011. [2] In 2012, eight of the eleven members were required to confirm Governor Bobby Jindal's appointment of John C. White as superintendent.
Many U.S. cities are allowed to participate in the pension plans of their states; some of the largest have their own pension plans. The total number of local government employees in the United States as of 2020 is 14.3 million. There are 11.1 million full-time and 3.1 million part-time local-government civilian employees as of 2020. [16]
Louisiana Department of Education (LADOE) is a state agency of Louisiana, United States. It manages the state's school districts. It is headquartered in the Claiborne Building at 1201 North 3rd Street in Baton Rouge. [1] [2] On a previous occasion the department was headquartered at 626 North 4th Street in Baton Rouge. [3]
(The Center Square) – Salary increases for public school employees starting in the 2025-26 school year is in legislation passed by the Louisiana House of Representatives. It will now head to the ...
Since the NEA represents 80% of SPS employees it would seem common sense and increase mutual respect to provide the NEA with a five-minute comment recognition on the agenda of every BOE meeting.
Under the bill, school board members in their first year on the job must complete 10 hours of training covering topics including budgeting and public school finance, laws and other protocols ...
Most Louisiana school districts are parish school districts while some are city school districts. The U.S. Census Bureau counts both types as independent governments. Special School District 1, which has gifted education facilities, is directly under the authority of the state government, not counted by the Census Bureau as its own government.
In June, the NAACP's Legal Defense Fund filed a separate motion for the school board to shut down the elementary school, arguing the board had clear evidence of the health risks Denka posed to students. The St. John the Baptist school board is one of dozens in the South which remains under decades-long desegregation orders.