10/11/2023
Michelle Living’s immediate action items for Lafayette Parish School Board District 4:
The schools of district 4 are facing 3 issues which affects our district tremendously: truancy, teacher retention, and literacy
1) Truancy and literacy go hand and hand. If the kids are not at school, they cannot learn and will have difficulty reading. I plan to work closely with the parents to get them to buy into their children’s education. I want to implement separate mentoring programs for the parents, boys, and girls. I will work closely with the schools’ CAFE programs with incentive ideas to help lower the truancy rate.
2) For teacher retention, I want to work on creating policies to pay teachers as much as I can until I can get their salaries where it needs to be. I want to implement incentive programs that attract quality teachers to our schools as well as retaining them. I would like to evaluate different options to decrease work loads and spread the work efficiently to improve their work and life balance.