Danny Martiny’s bill would start with the new budget year, July 1. Senators voted Monday 35-1 for the salary boosts, sending the measure to the House. Louisiana’s senators have agreed to a plan that could give the state’s judges annual pay hikes of 2.5% for the next five years. Louisiana judges also received pay raises each year from 2013 to 2017. On Monday, the Senate voted overwhelmingly to increase wages by 2.5% for 372 state judges. Last week, the Louisiana House Labor and Industrial Relations Committee voted 9-6 to kill House Bill 422, which would allow local cities and parishes to set their own minimum wage and paid leave laws. Īs LBP’s Neva Butkus explains in a recent blog post, Louisiana’s persistent school segregation both harms the state’s students and makes the state as a whole less economically competitive. The proposed area is more than 70 percent white and fewer than 15 percent black, while East Baton Rouge Parish is roughly 46.5 percent black.
(Many public schools rely heavily on property taxes.) The argument, then, is that the parents can better dictate how their money is being spent. Oftentimes, in these instances, predominantly white parents are trying to break away from a majority-minority school district, which in turn isolates their property-tax dollars in a new district. George, which activists seek to incorporate as a city, is a textbook example. According to a recent report from EdBuild, a nonprofit focused on public-school funding, 73 communities have split to form their own school districts since 2000, and the rate of places doing so has rapidly accelerated in the past two years. But Adam Harris in The Atlantic suggests otherwise, and writes that the East Baton Rouge secession movement is part of a disturbing national trend.Ī pattern has emerged over the past two decades: White, wealthy communities have been separating from their city’s school districts to form their own. George supporters say the breakaway movement is not motivated by race. If the push for a new city succeeds, the next step will be the creation of a new school district. In East Baton Rouge Parish, a small area comprised of 70% white residents will vote in October whether to create the breakaway city of St. Board of Education, but the inequity that stems from Louisiana’s segregated past continues in the state’s schools today.
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