“The Minutes in Minutes” highlights Jefferson Parish School Board meetings. To see everything that happened at the March 3, 2021 school board meeting, watch the video above. You can click here to view the agenda from each meeting or click here for more information about the Jefferson Parish School Board. To learn how you can watch our board meetings live, click here.

Second Reading authored by Mr. Dickerson:

• Move to form a task force to help change the name of any school or mascot that is offensive to ethnicity, culture, religion, or race. The task force is to be formed by November, and report it’s progress to March’s board meeting

Second Reading authored by Dr. LeBlanc:

• Move that Terrytown Elementary School be renamed Marjorie M. King Elementary School. DEFERRED TO MARCH 3, 2021.

• Items on the consent agenda are approved by a unanimous vote. View the board agenda to see the full consent agenda.

First Reading authored by Ms. Denapolis-Bosarge

• Move that the Jefferson Parish School Board direct the superintendent to place the following language
  into the employee handbook. The superintendent will formulate the proper language for inclusion into
  the handbook.
    1. Teachers will receive a 30-minute duty-free lunch daily.
    2. Teachers will receive class prep time each day equal to the length of one class period. Planning
        and class prep time may include the following, but no more than two times a week: grade-level
        department meetings, study groups, professional learning sessions, cluster meetings and
        collaborative sessions.
    3. Teachers will receive $100 supply reimbursement each semester.

First Reading authored by Ms. Tiffany Kuhn

• Move that the Jefferson Parish School Board direct the superintendent to place the following language
  into the employee handbook. The superintendent will formulate the proper language for inclusion into
  the handbook.
    1. Teachers will receive $25 per hour to attend mandatory professional learning seasons when
        held outside normal working hours.
    2. Teachers will receive reasonable and appropriate materials and equipment to implement
        educational programs in the classroom, collaborating with the Teaching and Learning unit and
        building administration.
    3. Teachers will be compensated according to the present Jefferson Parish Schools salary
        schedule.
    4. Teachers will be given three days advance notice of a regularly schedule faculty meeting held
        after school. Advanced notice will not be necessary for emergency meetings called at the
        principals discretion.