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Interesting article about the shrinking public schools in Louisiana
Posted on 6/7/26 at 10:47 am
Posted on 6/7/26 at 10:47 am
Why some Louisiana schools are facing a reckoning
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While some Louisiana school districts have started to right-size, others have put off the reckoning. Nearly all of Louisiana’s roughly 70 traditional school districts lost students over the past decade. Meanwhile, their employment levels often see-sawed
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St. Landry Parish has seen enrollment fall as families have fewer kids, move away or opt for charters or homeschool. Yet even as the school system lost roughly a quarter of its students over the past decade, its workforce grew by nearly 20%.
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Post-pandemic, the state’s public schools lost nearly 44,000 students, yet added more than 11,000 staffers
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Louisiana’s population of students still learning English, many of them recent immigrants, soared over 150% from 2010 to 2021, more than any other state
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local voters rejected a tax hike that would have boosted school employees’ low pay, leading frustrated bus drivers — who earn less than $25,000 annually — to stage a sickout.
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Caddo Parish might offer a glimpse of this future. The school system, which includes Shreveport, shed nearly 8,500 students over the past decade. In response, officials say, they’ve taken aggressive steps to right-size the district. More than 20 schools have been shuttered since 2000, and the district had about 1,050 fewer employees in 2024 than a decade earlier.
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Posted on 6/7/26 at 11:08 am to TigerintheNO
I think you also have to look at the other reasons public school are losing students that not many want to talk about. Culture in the schools. Most parents who can afford to send their kids to private or catholic schools do so for the simple reason of not wanting their child around thuggish behavior and the issues that come from kids who parents use the school as a daycare.
Posted on 6/7/26 at 11:08 am to TigerintheNO
Public schools are just jobs programs. The “jindal law” has school boards hoodwinked into believing they have no say in employment decisions, but they absolutely can set total number of employees, what those jobs are, and where they report to. Until local boards choose to manage the explosion of massive admin employment and replace it with more teachers and aides people are gonna keep going private. At least there’s some semblance of accountability at a private school where poor performers are removed. Public schools allow teachers to get on fb and call parents dirtbags. Why would anyone want to send their kids to a place like that?
Posted on 6/7/26 at 11:31 am to TigerintheNO
25% is a ton of kids when talking about an entire highschoool
Posted on 6/7/26 at 11:46 am to TigerintheNO
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St. Landry Parish has seen enrollment fall as families have fewer kids, move away or opt for charters or homeschool. Yet even as the school system lost roughly a quarter of its students over the past decade, its workforce grew by nearly 20%.
So much of our tax money is wasted at the parish school board level.
Posted on 6/7/26 at 11:51 am to TigerintheNO
Schools and govt in general have no incentive to maintain or reduce costs. They just get more tax money and are forced to try and figure out ways to spend it.
Posted on 6/7/26 at 11:54 am to TigerintheNO
Charters are bleeding them of students who they and their parents want a safe learning environment.
That being the charters that aren’t sports factories -
That being the charters that aren’t sports factories -
Posted on 6/7/26 at 11:57 am to Tygerfan
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think you also have to look at the other reasons public school are losing students that not many want to talk about. Culture in the schools. Most parents who can afford to send their kids to private or catholic schools do so for the simple reason of not wanting their child around thuggish behavior and the issues that come from kids who parents use the school as a daycare.
In general private school enrollment has been in decline for years. Public’s are losing to charters by a large margin over privates
Posted on 6/7/26 at 12:12 pm to choupiquesushi
I would imagine this is a trend across the country for a multitude of reasons.
Posted on 6/7/26 at 12:16 pm to Swagga
It is and has been for decades
Posted on 6/7/26 at 12:55 pm to choupiquesushi
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In general private school enrollment has been in decline for years. Public’s are losing to charters by a large margin over privates
Charter schools are public schools and are included in those numbers.
Posted on 6/7/26 at 8:14 pm to haricot rouge
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Charter schools are public schools and are included in those numbers.
Then why isn't Orleans Parish on the list?
Posted on 6/7/26 at 8:21 pm to TigerintheNO
What about Ascension? Schools and neighborhoods are going up left and right.
Posted on 6/7/26 at 8:29 pm to TigerintheNO
quote:which families?
families have fewer kids
Posted on 6/7/26 at 8:30 pm to TigerintheNO
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Then why isn't Orleans Parish on the list?
Mostly charter schools now. They have some of the same issues with birthrate but it's all made at the school level. My cousin teaches at a charter in New Orleans and they just got rid of 2 classrooms after the school year ended because their entering kindergarten classes have gone down by a quarter since 2020.
Posted on 6/7/26 at 8:34 pm to Sofaking2
The biggest factor in my opinion is people having fewer kids. It’s no surprise public and private schools have declining enrollment. Not much you can do about that except close schools and shrink employees .
Posted on 6/7/26 at 8:36 pm to Cycledude
quote:you can force people to frick more
The biggest factor in my opinion is people having fewer kids. It’s no surprise public and private schools have declining enrollment. Not much you can do about that except close schools and shrink employees
Posted on 6/8/26 at 6:41 am to haricot rouge
quote:looking at LHSAA enrollment numbers it does not appear charters are on the list
Charter schools are public schools and are included in those numbers.
Posted on 6/8/26 at 7:39 am to TigerintheNO
Funny that this came from the Advocate usually they don’t carry Landry’s water or report and expound on a positive angle for Jeff.
The other thing to look at is administrative pay. The salary and benefits of some Superintendents can be a little excessive when you add car allowances, cell phone allowances, a clothing allowance, and other perks that a your every day teacher does not receive.
The other thing to look at is administrative pay. The salary and benefits of some Superintendents can be a little excessive when you add car allowances, cell phone allowances, a clothing allowance, and other perks that a your every day teacher does not receive.
Posted on 6/8/26 at 7:44 am to TigerintheNO
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Post-pandemic, the state’s public schools lost nearly 44,000 students, yet added more than 11,000 staffers
This isn't just Louisiana, it is across the board for all public schools and universities. It is the academic-industrial-complex and it can't be stopped since you're not allowed to question funding since it is "for the kids."
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