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Following yesterday’s release of a new policy from the Louisiana Department of Education students, parents and LFT members across the state have expressed confusion and concern about safety in their schools. The new policy could eliminate the need for students to quarantine after being exposed to COVID-19 before returning to school. While COVID-19 and the Delta variant continue to rapidly spread across the state, schools have remained a safer space due to increased COVID-19 protocols. Thus far, we have managed to keep the spread of COVID-19 in schools relatively low, and this has helped to

Baton Rouge, LA — Louisiana’s K-12 teachers and school employees will have access to the COVID-19 vaccine beginning Monday, February 22, 2021. The Louisiana Federation of Teachers and School Employees has urged the Governor’s office to grant educators priority access to the COVID-19 vaccine since the State first began assembling its vaccination rollout plan. 

“This is an important development for our teachers, school employees, and the communities they serve. Vaccinating teachers and school employees is one of the

This week, Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry released an official opinion regarding constitutionality of payment to public employees, including teachers and support staff, during the COVD-19 closure of school and state offices facilities.

Unfortunately, there was debate about whether or not it was constitutional to continue to pay public employees if they weren’t working when offices were closed, and this opinion answers that question once and for all: it is constitutional to pay public employees during the COVID-19 shutdown. The Attorney General’s opinion makes it clear that if