2026 Louisiana Legislative Session Education-Related Bills: Key Highlights for Schools Several new Louisiana laws affect nonpublic schools, early learning programs, student safety, school operations, and college/career pathways. Below is a concise overview of the major themes and action areas. Child Safety & Reporting Mandatory reporter duties, child abuse reporting, forensic interview procedures, school-setting abuse reporting,
The Senate Finance Committee meets tomorrow, June 1, 2025 and the session ends on June 12th, so action is needed urgently. Louisiana must move forward with parental choice in education and give parents the opportunity to allow their children to flourish. Please join us in fully funding the 93.5 million currently in the budget to
Overall Budget Shortfall for teacher pay, federal funding uncertainty, funds for new prisons and keeping in prison; State police pay, DCFS needs 30 million, LDH cut 86 million, Medicaid Not until May Revenue Estimating will they know exactly what to spend on what 2025-2026 Non-Public Assistance 20 million in Non-Public Assistance Remains; minus less than
Overall, this was a major movement to open opportunities for parents, a consistent theme of everything a public school does then so should the private, a consistent support from the legislature to provide autonomy for private schools. There was acknowledgement the significant improvement in public education ratings for Louisiana from 49th to 40th, a movement
Since the session began, we have seen that every bill that has public schools attached will then have an associated movement to attach private schools to everything. This issue from their perspective is that if you receive any state funds, you must comply. Attempts but Rep. Frieberg and Rep. Schlegel to keep autonomy in private schools
