BAKER — The Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education may have violated state law by not properly notifying the public that it was taking over two low-performing schools in Baker, an appellate court found.
According to the appellate court ruling issued on Tuesday, four members of a five-judge panel said that the wording of BESE’s meeting agenda was not clear enough about what would be discussed to comply with the Open Meeting Law, opening the case up to further proceedings into the alleged violation in lower courts in East Baton Rouge Parish.
This reverses a May 2025 19th JDC decision that denied the City of Baker School Board’s claims about open meeting violations against BESE…