ENROLLED
2021 Regular Session
HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 133
BY REPRESENTATIVE GARY CARTER
A RESOLUTION
To urge and request the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to 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.
WHEREAS, due to the COVID-19 global health pandemic, the 2020-2021 school
year has been extremely challenging for students, families, and teachers; and
WHEREAS, natural disasters also drastically disrupted the school year in multiple
parishes, including Hurricanes Marco, Laura, Sally, Beta, and Delta in 2020 and the winter
storm of February 2021; and
WHEREAS, students across the state have been exposed to different levels of in-
person instruction, online instruction, and instruction in a hybrid format of both in-person
and online instruction; and
WHEREAS, the disruption of education due to COVID-19 and extraordinary weather
events during the 2020-2021 school year will likely result in an inaccurate measure of
educational outcomes, and inaccurate measures should not be used as a basis for the
evaluation of teachers.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the House of Representatives of the
Legislature of Louisiana does hereby urge and request the State Board of Elementary and
Secondary Education to 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.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
president of the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education and the state
superintendent of education.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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