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Two of the most controversial issues in public education - Common Core State Standards and the Value Added Model of teacher evaluation – will be on the table when the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education holds committee meetings on Tuesday, October 15.

LFT President Steve Monaghan has given the news media a report on the Federation's agenda for the 2013 legislative session. To see the presentation in its entirety, please click here.

(New Orleans - March 19) For more than an hour on Tuesday, attorneys for the Louisiana Federation of Teachers and others explained to the State Supreme Court why a district judge ruled one of Gov. Bobby Jindal’s assaults on public education unconstitutional.

Education historian Diane Ravitch and Board of Elementary and Secondary Education President Chas Roemer debated the way education is being overhauled in Louisiana on Thursday, March 14. Roemer, defending the status quo of Gov. Jindal’s reforms, was clearly outmatched.

A panel of lawmakers agreed Saturday that the Jindal administration’s agenda hurts school employees and their families. Five members of the House of Representatives spoke at the Louisiana Federation of Teachers’ annual Paraprofessional and School Related Personnel Conference in Baton Rouge.

The LFT has spelled out six specific objections to the $3.46 billion formula approved by BESE on March 8. The Federation was the only teacher organization to speak in opposition to the Minimum Foundation Program proposal.

One of Gov. Bobby Jindal's fiercest critics is coming to Baton Rouge!

If you have ever seen her blog or her Washington Post articles, you know that Diane Ravitch strongly disagrees with Governor Bobby Jindal's approach to education reform. And she has the research and data to back it up!

Public schools should be made safer without turning them into armed camps, Louisiana Federation of Teachers President Steve Monaghan told a legislative committee meeting in the aftermath of a horrific school shooting in Connecticut.

Several years after the Louisiana Federation of Teachers filed its first complaint about the exploitation of Filipino teachers hired to staff classrooms in our state, a California jury has fined the recruiting company that brought them to the United States $4.5 million.