Caddo Parish School Board approves consent agenda and superintendent evaluation; pupil progression plan on consent list

The Caddo Parish School Board on Sept. 16 approved a consent agenda that included personnel actions, policy revisions and the 2025–26 pupil progression plan, and later voted to approve the superintendent’s evaluation.

Superintendent Burton presented the consent items early in the meeting. He listed personnel leaves and resignations, administrative contract renewals, an inventory-policy revision (policy DIC), proposed revisions to CPSB policy BCBD, the Louisiana compliance questionnaire, the 2025–26 pupil progression plan, revisions to the district personnel evaluation plan, an amended proclamation calling a special election for Christine Tharpe, and a capital projects supplemental bond request for HVAC projects and associated professional designers.

Board member motions put the agenda and consent items on the floor. Miss Yates moved to establish the agenda and propose the consent agenda for the Sept. 16 meeting; a second was recorded and the board voted to adopt the agenda and consent items. A later motion to "confirm the consent agenda" was also moved and seconded and carried by voice and electronic recording according to the meeting procedures.

During the meeting the board also moved into executive session on a motion that was moved and seconded; the transcript records the motion and the board’s action to convene in executive session but does not include the subject matter discussed during the closed session.

After the closed session the board returned and took up a motion to approve the superintendent’s evaluation. That motion was moved and seconded; the board voted in favor and members offered congratulatory remarks to Superintendent Burton following the vote.

Votes recorded during the meeting were taken by a combination of voice and the board’s electronic voting system; the board’s attorney referenced an attorney-general oral opinion permitting voice votes while noting the board could continue to record votes electronically.

No roll-call vote tallies or member-by-member vote records are included in the public transcript for the consent vote or the superintendent evaluation vote.

Votes at a glance

- Approval of minutes (08/19/2025, 08/22/2025, 09/02/2025): Motion moved (mover recorded in meeting as Miss Bowen), seconded; outcome: approved.

- Establish agenda and propose consent agenda for 09/16/2025: Mover: Miss Yates; Second: Miss Trammell; outcome: approved.

- Confirm consent agenda (includes: personnel leaves; personnel resignations; administrative contract renewals; inventory policy DIC revision; CPSB policy BCBD revisions; Louisiana compliance questionnaire; 2025–26 pupil progression plan; revisions to the 2025–26 Caddo personnel evaluation plan; amended proclamation calling a special election for Christine Tharpe; capital-projects supplemental bond and HVAC projects with professional designers for 2026–27): Mover: not specified in transcript; outcome: approved (consent carried as a block).

- Motion to move to executive session: Mover: Miss Yates; Second: Miss Trammell/Trameo (second recorded); outcome: executive session convened.

- Approval of superintendent’s evaluation: Mover: not specified in the public portion of the transcript; Second: recorded (Mister Racheal referenced in the transcript); outcome: approved.

The board did not announce detailed voting tallies or record individual yes/no votes in the publicly available transcript; the meeting used a combination of voice votes and the electronic voting system to record outcomes.

Board members and staff indicated follow-up work on several consent items will be handled administratively; no ordinance, resolution or binding change to district law beyond the listed policy revisions was recorded during the meeting.