The Successful effort to defeat the prohibition of PragerU content

Musings on the LA Legislature #11

Hello all,

I wanted to provide a recap of the events surrounding Dr. Cade Brumley, Cleo Fields, and Louisiana education over the past week.

At the beginning of this week, LA BESE Superintended Cade Brumley announced Louisiana’s partnership with the educational media non-profit PragerU. This partnership will allow Louisiana teachers to utilize PragerU materials for Louisiana K-12 social studies classes.

Unfortunately, this new partnership upset state senator Cleo Fields and other Democrats in the Louisiana Legislature.

In my article in The Hayride this morning, I explained the situation in the Legislature yesterday wherein Cleo Fields bashed Dr. Brumley over the PragerU partnership in a closed door, executive session of the Senate & Government affairs committee:

“As Scott McKay pointed out here in The Hayride yesterday, senator Cleo Fields took yesterday’s Senate governmental affairs committee into an executive session in order to air out his grievances with Brumley over the PragerU partnership …

Yes, you read that correctly. In a flagrantly nontransparent move, “shady Cleo” Fields essentially tried to hide his baseless questioning of BESE Superintendent Cade Brumley by going into a private, executive session. Why didn’t the public have the ability to witness this soviet-style interrogation of one of Louisiana’s most effective public officials in Dr. Cade Brumley? Talk about a lack of transparency.”

After this ignominious meeting, two of senator Field’s fellow Democrat legislators (Sen. Jospeh Bourie and Rep. Edmond Jordan) filed resolutions that were supposed to be heard in both chambers of the legislature (SR152 & HR323). Their resolutions requested BESE and the Louisiana Department of Education to ban PragerU content in Louisiana classrooms.

Fortunately, Louisiana Freedom Caucus, The Hayride, and grassroots conservative voters generated plenty of pushback against Bourie and Jordan’s bogus resolutions . Consequently, Senate President Cameron Henry and House Speaker Phillip DeVillier killed both resolutions by putting them back on the calendar.

So now, Louisiana teachers are free to use PragerU material in Louisiana classrooms. What a huge victory for the Louisiana First movement!

Thank you to everyone who played a role in shutting down SR152 & HR323!

If you want to learn more about Louisiana’s partnership with PragerU, then check out this 9 minute interview of Dr. Cade Brumley with PragerU CEO Marissa Streit.

Anyways, thank you all for reading, and may Christ Jesus bless the state of Louisiana! Only Louisiana First!