Assistance is available for residents of parishes that have been declared disaster areas in the wake of Hurricane Isaac. Members of the Louisiana Federation of Teachers may be eligible for UnionPlus Disaster Relief Grants. Affected parishes include Ascension, Jefferson, Lafourche, Livingston, Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. John the Baptist and St. Tammany.

As you probably know, we have returned to the bargaining table to negotiate our first successor agreement. Our bargaining team members include James G. Baccaro, local president; Thomas E. Miller, local vice-president; and Melissa M. Martirano, local secretary.


Please be assured that we have prioritized our proposals based on your input from the surveys you completed.


To date, we have met with the administration’s bargaining team twice, and both sessions were productive.


We will continue to update you as we make progress, and when we reach a tentative agreement, we will contact the full members with details regarding the ratification process.


Please continue to visit the site for updates. As always, thanks for your patience and support.

We hope everyone had a great summer! We have worked very hard to implement the annualization of  our pay. Everyone should have recieved a 5 day paycheck. Please check your E-mail on a regular basis for updates from the district and us. Call the office if you have questions.

Have a super great school year!!!

(Baton Rouge – September 6, 2012) A study purporting to support a new teacher evaluation system is the product of a biased, pro-business think tank and should not be taken seriously by education reformers in Louisiana, according to the Louisiana Federation of Teachers.

What to do if you are having problems with the new state teacher evaluation:
Report it! Tell us about your COMPASS experience!

Please click here to Report It! and tell us about your COMPASS experience.

The September 2012 Newsletter is up and ready for digital download!

The failure of AB 5 to make it out of the California Legislature is a setback for
the education community and all those who believe education reform requires a
truly collaborative effort.
AB 5, A Best Practices Teacher Evaluation System (Fuentes), provided a much
needed step forward in improving the teacher evaluation process by
incorporating best practices, community member engagement, and local
negotiations, thereby moving away from a top-down, one size fits all approach.

Click on the above link to read more.

The following statement was issued today by the California Federation of
Teachers on the pension reform legislation:
We are disappointed that some elements of the pension reform plan currently
before the Legislature scapegoat public employees who have spent years
educating our children, cleaning our schools, providing services for the needy
and ensuring public safety. Public employee pensions are not the main cause, or
even a major cause, of the State’s on-going budget problems, and portrayals as
such are misleading.

Click on the above link to read more.

The attached article offers some suggestions on how a Harvard Brain Specialist keeps her own brain healthy.