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Regular Session, 2010
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTI ON NO. 198
BY REPRESENTATIVE HARRISON
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTI ON
To urge and request the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to study issues
relative to partnerships by local public school boards with private entities to provide
certain ancillary services, including how cost savings derived from such partnerships
could be used to improve instructional and technological services for students, and
to submit a written report of findings, including any recommendations for related
legislation, to the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on
Education not later than sixty days prior to the beginning of the 2011 Regular
Session of the Legislature.
WHEREAS, local public school boards spend an enormous amount of time and
money on operating ancillary services such as cafeteria, custodial, facilities maintenance and
management, transportation, and technology services; and
WHEREAS, this distraction takes valuable time and funds from the core competency
of schools, which is the education of students; and
WHEREAS, allowing educators to focus more on this core competency and less on
ancillary services would improve and enhance the academic performance of students; and
WHEREAS, school boards should consider turning over operation of many of the
functions currently under their direction to private entities to improve operational
efficiencies; and
WHEREAS, through partnering with the private sector for ancillary functions,
services may be performed more efficiently and cost effectively.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby
urge and request the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to study issues
relative to partnerships by local public school boards with private entities to provide certain
ancillary services, including how cost savings derived from such partnerships could be used ENROLLEDHCR NO. 198
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to improve instructional and technological services for students, and to submit a written
report of findings, including any recommendations for related legislation, to the House
Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education not later than sixty days
prior to the beginning of the 2011 Regular Session of the Legislature.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this Resolution be transmitted to the
president of the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education and to the state
superintendent of education.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATI VES
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE