The Livingston Parish School board will meet on Thursday July 11, 2024 to discuss changing the language of your current job duties to be more “specific” to include extra-curricular activities such as working football games or chaperoning dances.

What does that mean for you?

During the legislative session, a new law written by your union (ACT 311) was passed which protects your right to a fair workload. It was intended to protect you from burnout and ensure that a teacher’s time and energy is spent on duties that would have the greatest impact on our student’s educational outcomes.

In addition, ACT 311 would allow teachers and school employees to be compensated for extra-curricular events ONLY IF it was not part of their job description.

❌ If the current job descriptions are changed to include these duties, you would no longer be entitled to the compensation and instead of being allowed to volunteer or receive compensation for working events after school, you would be required to do so.

You can read the updated job descriptions here.

This is not our only option!! Neighboring parishes have come up with fair solutions. We deserve the time to do the same.

WE NEED YOU to contact your board members NOW urging them to postpone the decision to implement new job descriptions!

1. Call your board members–You can find all phone numbers here.

   1. What to mention: How this change would impact you; concerns on the lack of transparency; urge them to postpone and allow input from teachers to come up with a fair solution.

2. Click START WRITING to send a pre-written letter to board members.

3. Show up to the board meeting–we need as many people as possible expressing to the board what adding these “specifics” means to the teachers and school employees in their community!