SB 636 is designed to give principals in East Baton Rouge Parish School System and enormous amount of unneeded responsibility. They would now be in charge of transportation, food services, facility management, and all other sorts of non-educational duties at their particular school. It apparently would make them responsible for teacher training, the curriculum taught, and the purchasing of the textbooks at their school. It seems like on the surface it is designed to destroy the purchasing power and the cost benefits associated with scale of a large school system, while bogging educators down with an enormous amount of duties that they know little about and have little time for.

It is obvious that the State has it out for EBRPSS. However, I don't know why. Maybe some of you guys can educate me on it.
1.) Why do people who do not represent this district continuously try to make laws governing this particular school system?

2.) The Principals went to the Senate Education Committee and pleaded with them not go forward with this bill, yet it passed unanimously. Why does something that everyone involved doesn't want pass unanimously?

3.) Why EBRPSS? It is a C-rated school district by the state's own measurement. There are worse districts within in the state, and I imagine if you compared it to other districts with similar demographics it would compare very favorably.

4.) This seems like more of a bill attacking non-educational portions of the district. Unless I am missing something, they have seemed corruption free, and relatively financially stable compared to other governmental agencies like CATS. So why attack them this way?