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A plan that would permit a breakaway school district in southeast Baton Rouge won lopsided approval Wednesday in the Louisiana Senate.

The two-bill package passed 30-8 and 29-7 after about one hour of debate.

The plan next faces action in the Louisiana House and, if approved there, goes to voters statewide.

Under the proposal, 10 public schools now in the East Baton Rouge Parish school system would make up the newly formed Southeast Baton Rouge Community School System.

State Sen. Bodi White, R-Central and sponsor of the plan, said the package is a response to pleas from mothers, fathers, students and others who have concluded that long-standing problems in the East Baton Rouge system demand a fresh start.

“They want it very badly,” White said of residents in the area.

The proposed district would extend southeast from the Interstate 10/12 split, south of I-12 and east of I-10 to the parish lines.

It would apply to seven elementary schools, two middle schools and one high school.

The new district would be the fourth of its kind and follow breakaway moves by Baker, Central and Zachary.

All used to be part of the East Baton Rouge Parish school system, which has a “D” rating.

White noted that Istrouma High School will soon be put under state control — which he called the eighth such school in the district — and that 31 other failing schools in north Baton Rouge are about to enter a new improvement zone, which will also be overseen by the state.

He said parish education spending totals $14,300 per student when construction dollars are included.

“It is not about the money,” White told the Senate. “It is about are we going to educate these kids?”

But state Sen. Sharon Weston Broome, D-Baton Rouge, disputed White’s comments in a pointed exchange near the end of the debate.

Broome said that, while views vary on how to repair the schools, dismantling the system is not the answer.

Source: The Advocate

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