These Bills Will Be Heard In House Ed. Committee Tomorrow, May 12th!!!
HB718 by Representative John M. Schroder
STUDENTS: Provides relative to the collection and sharing of certain student information (OR NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)
Vote NO - HB 718 ACTUALLY ELIMINATES PRIVACY PROTECTIONS FOR LA PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS THAT EXIST WITHIN ACT 837--THE STRONGEST STUDENT DATA PRIVACY LAW IN THE NATION.
If passed, this bill will allow the very thing Act 837 was designed to stop: the storing of our children’s personally identifiable information in a Third Party Data Warehouse controlled by our Supt. of Education and from where our children’s information will be shared without our consent through Data Sharing Agreements with various state agencies and others.
As bad as HB 718 is in its current form, if this bill passes through the House we can only become increasingly concerned as we wait to see how much worse it will become once Senator Conrad Appel gets his hands on it in Senate Ed. Committee.
HCR81 by Representative Ledricka Thierry
SCHOOLS/FOOD PROGRAMS: Creates the Task Force on Summer Hunger
Vote NO - This Resolution proposes to create yet another Unelected Task Force. This time we are going to study whether or not we need a program to provide lunch to students during the summer. Since the federal government already created a program and a grant just for this purpose, what do YOU think the findings of this task force will be?
Do we really want to create another government program that taxpayers need to fund?
HB672 by Representative Lance Harris
STUDENT/STANDARDS: Provides relative to the development, review, and adoption of state content standards and related assessments for public school students
Vote No - This bill seeks to create an Unelected Commission to help REBRAND the Common Core State Content Standards. This time the standards WILL be approved by the legislature. We will revert back to the state content standards that were used in the 2010-2011 school year until the REBRAND is completed.
Lagniappe: If this bill becomes law, it will also undo the provisions of Act 532 which passed unanimously last session and gives the local districts control over curriculum and content. This bill seeks to allow the state to once again REQUIRE certain content and curriculum.
This bill establishes that the standards will prepare students for "self-governance" with skills necessary to compete in an "open market" while agreeing to be labeled as "lifelong learners."
ALL Standards are designed to "create citizens for the workforce" and for "lifelong learning" who are always willing to be retrained by government for whatever jobs the state is required to fill for the Business Lobby at any point in time.
So, exactly why should we believe that these “new” standards will be any different than Common Core????
HB373 by Representative Brett Geymann
STUDENT/STANDARDS: Provides for the implementation of state content standards for public school students subject to legislative approval
Vote No - This bill proposes that the legislature must approve the state content standards prior to them being implemented by the school districts. This bill would further require that BESE would have to follow the Administrative Procedures Act (APA) prior to implementing the standards. This bill would also prohibit the DoE from utilizing any standards that had not been approved by the legislature. This would start with the 2017-2018 school year.
The problem is that if citizens are not happy with the standards that are approved by the legislature; or, if we wind up (as expected) with a re-brand of the Common Core State Standards, citizens will have to work to replace not only the BESE members, as we can do now, but also enough representatives and senators to get a majority vote in the legislature.
Fighting the standards in court, once the APA has been followed and once we have legislative approval, will be extremely difficult, if not impossible.
Contact House Education Committee
Stephen F. Carter [email protected] (225)362-5305
Patrick O. Jefferson [email protected] (318)927-2519
Wesley T. Bishop [email protected] (504)242-4198
Chris Broadwater [email protected] (985)543-4900
Henry L. Burns [email protected] (318)949-2463
Thomas Carmody, Jr. [email protected] (318)862-9956
John Bel Edwards [email protected] (985)748-2245
Jeffrey "Jeff" Hall [email protected] (318)487-5661
Cameron Henry [email protected] (504)838-5433
Paul Hollis [email protected] (985)871-4680
Barry Ivey [email protected] (225)261-5739
Nancy Landry [email protected] (337)262-2252
Walt Leger, III [email protected] (504)556-9970
Edward J. Price [email protected] (225)644-6738
H. Eugene Reynold [email protected] (318)371-3092
Jerome Richard [email protected] (985)447-0999
Robert E. Shadoin [email protected] (318)251-5039
Patricia Haynes Smith [email protected] (225)342-7106
Alfred C. Williams [email protected] (225)382-3243
Charles E. Kleckley [email protected] (337)475-3016
HB718 by Representative John M. Schroder
STUDENTS: Provides relative to the collection and sharing of certain student information (OR NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)
Vote NO - HB 718 ACTUALLY ELIMINATES PRIVACY PROTECTIONS FOR LA PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS THAT EXIST WITHIN ACT 837--THE STRONGEST STUDENT DATA PRIVACY LAW IN THE NATION.
If passed, this bill will allow the very thing Act 837 was designed to stop: the storing of our children’s personally identifiable information in a Third Party Data Warehouse controlled by our Supt. of Education and from where our children’s information will be shared without our consent through Data Sharing Agreements with various state agencies and others.
As bad as HB 718 is in its current form, if this bill passes through the House we can only become increasingly concerned as we wait to see how much worse it will become once Senator Conrad Appel gets his hands on it in Senate Ed. Committee.
HCR81 by Representative Ledricka Thierry
SCHOOLS/FOOD PROGRAMS: Creates the Task Force on Summer Hunger
Vote NO - This Resolution proposes to create yet another Unelected Task Force. This time we are going to study whether or not we need a program to provide lunch to students during the summer. Since the federal government already created a program and a grant just for this purpose, what do YOU think the findings of this task force will be?
Do we really want to create another government program that taxpayers need to fund?
HB672 by Representative Lance Harris
STUDENT/STANDARDS: Provides relative to the development, review, and adoption of state content standards and related assessments for public school students
Vote No - This bill seeks to create an Unelected Commission to help REBRAND the Common Core State Content Standards. This time the standards WILL be approved by the legislature. We will revert back to the state content standards that were used in the 2010-2011 school year until the REBRAND is completed.
Lagniappe: If this bill becomes law, it will also undo the provisions of Act 532 which passed unanimously last session and gives the local districts control over curriculum and content. This bill seeks to allow the state to once again REQUIRE certain content and curriculum.
This bill establishes that the standards will prepare students for "self-governance" with skills necessary to compete in an "open market" while agreeing to be labeled as "lifelong learners."
ALL Standards are designed to "create citizens for the workforce" and for "lifelong learning" who are always willing to be retrained by government for whatever jobs the state is required to fill for the Business Lobby at any point in time.
So, exactly why should we believe that these “new” standards will be any different than Common Core????
HB373 by Representative Brett Geymann
STUDENT/STANDARDS: Provides for the implementation of state content standards for public school students subject to legislative approval
Vote No - This bill proposes that the legislature must approve the state content standards prior to them being implemented by the school districts. This bill would further require that BESE would have to follow the Administrative Procedures Act (APA) prior to implementing the standards. This bill would also prohibit the DoE from utilizing any standards that had not been approved by the legislature. This would start with the 2017-2018 school year.
The problem is that if citizens are not happy with the standards that are approved by the legislature; or, if we wind up (as expected) with a re-brand of the Common Core State Standards, citizens will have to work to replace not only the BESE members, as we can do now, but also enough representatives and senators to get a majority vote in the legislature.
Fighting the standards in court, once the APA has been followed and once we have legislative approval, will be extremely difficult, if not impossible.
Contact House Education Committee
Stephen F. Carter [email protected] (225)362-5305
Patrick O. Jefferson [email protected] (318)927-2519
Wesley T. Bishop [email protected] (504)242-4198
Chris Broadwater [email protected] (985)543-4900
Henry L. Burns [email protected] (318)949-2463
Thomas Carmody, Jr. [email protected] (318)862-9956
John Bel Edwards [email protected] (985)748-2245
Jeffrey "Jeff" Hall [email protected] (318)487-5661
Cameron Henry [email protected] (504)838-5433
Paul Hollis [email protected] (985)871-4680
Barry Ivey [email protected] (225)261-5739
Nancy Landry [email protected] (337)262-2252
Walt Leger, III [email protected] (504)556-9970
Edward J. Price [email protected] (225)644-6738
H. Eugene Reynold [email protected] (318)371-3092
Jerome Richard [email protected] (985)447-0999
Robert E. Shadoin [email protected] (318)251-5039
Patricia Haynes Smith [email protected] (225)342-7106
Alfred C. Williams [email protected] (225)382-3243
Charles E. Kleckley [email protected] (337)475-3016