HLS 21RS-3441 ORIGINAL
2021 Regular Session
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOL UTION NO. 107
BY REPRESENTATIVE GARY CARTER
TEACHERS/EVALUATION: Requests that the State Board of Elementary and Secondary
Education take all necessary actions to provide that no measure of student growth be
used in the evaluation of teachers for the 2020-2021 school year
1 A CONCURRENT RESOL UTION
2To urge and request the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to take all
3 necessary actions to provide that no measure of student growth be used in the
4 evaluation of teachers for the 2020-2021 school year.
5 WHEREAS, due to the COVID-19 global health pandemic, the 2020-2021 school
6year has been extremely challenging for students, families, and teachers; and
7 WHEREAS, natural disasters also drastically disrupted the school year in multiple
8parishes, including Hurricanes Marco, Laura, Sally, Beta, and Delta in 2020 and the winter
9storm of February 2021; and
10 WHEREAS, students across the state have been exposed to different levels of in-
11person instruction, online instruction, and instruction in a hybrid format of both in-person
12and online instruction; and
13 WHEREAS, the disruption of education due to COVID-19 and extraordinary weather
14events during the 2020-2021 school year will likely result in an inaccurate measure of
15educational outcomes, and inaccurate measures should not be used as a basis for the
16evaluation of teachers.
17 THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby
18urge and request the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to take all
19necessary actions to provide that no measure of student growth be used in the evaluation of
20teachers for the 2020-2021 school year.
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HCR NO. 107
1 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
2president of the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education and the state
3superintendent of education.
DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HCR 107 Original 2021 Regular Session Gary Carter
Requests that the State Bd. of Elementary and Secondary Education take all necessary
actions to provide that no measure of student growth be used in the evaluation of teachers
for the 2020-2021 school year.
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