United Teachers of New Orleans, Local 527

AFT, LFT, AFL-CIO

Endorsements

Special Elections of

February 18 and March 25, 2023

Orleans Parish:

State Representative, District 93........................................... DUAL ENDORSEMENT:

                                                                                                Alonzo Knox

                                                                                    Sibil “Fox” Richardson

EARLY VOTING: FEBRUARY 4^th to 11^th from 8:30AM- 6:00 PM
(except SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 5^th)

ELECTION DAY: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18^th

Orleans Parish:

Judge, Criminal

In September, LDOE extended the deadline for inputing data into the eSER system until December 16th because of glitches in the rollout of the new system. It has been over two months since these issues were raised with LDOE, BESE, and the Senate Education Committee, but the problems have only gotten worse. Three days before the deadline to enter data, the entire system went down.

Don't let LDOE cover this up. Let the Senate Education Committee and the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education know about your experience with the system.

On Thursday, November 10th the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education held a special meeting to finally vote on the long-debated changes to the high school accountability model. The proposed changes were adamantly opposed by superintendents, principals, teachers, school board members and other educational stakeholders, but supported by non-education special interest groups like the Pelican Institute, the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry (LABI), and the Louisiana Association of Public Charter Schools.