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Agendas and Materials for the 2020 January BESE Meetings

District 2 residents, Agendas and materials for the January 28, 2020, BESE Committee meetings, policy forum, and the January 29, 2020, BESE meeting have been posted. Tuesday, January 28, 2020 9:00 AM – Educator Effectiveness Committee meeting  (AGENDA|MATERIALS) 10:00...

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Agendas and materials for the 2019 December BESE Meetings

Dear District 2 residents, The Agendas and materials for the December 10, 2019, BESE Committee meetings; the December 10, 2019, public hearing for rulemaking; the December 11, 2019, joint BESE/Board of Regents meeting; and the December 11, 2019, BESE meeting have been...

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Diversity, Community, and Warmth at Hoffman

Uptown Public School Series: Diversity, Community, and Warmth at Hoffman Posted by UptownMessenger.com at 11:58 amFeatured, recognition, schools, UptownMessenger.com Sep092019 In this second of our ten-essay series by parents of students at public schools Uptown, Anna...

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The Right School for CJ

Uptown Public School Series: Excellence, Rigor, and Diversity of Options The Right School for CJ By Christopher Dobney, Parent In the first essay of this ten-part series by parents of students at public schools Uptown, Christopher Dobney writes about his son CJ’s time...

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NOLA Public Schools Outperforms State on Student Progress

NEW ORLEANS - The Louisiana Department of Education released statewide progress data results and for the second year in a row NOLA Public schools are outperforming statewide averages for growth, specifically across all four sub-groups reported by the state. The...

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Teacher Raises Win Final Passage From Louisiana Lawmakers

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana's public school teachers will get $1,000 pay raises next year and districts will get $39 million more to spend on operations. The House gave final passage to the school financing plan with a 103-0 vote, ending a stalemate between...

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