Grambling, LA – Governor-Elect John Bel Edwards, who has announced education as one of his top priorities, has created two committees to examine the future of education in Louisiana. Two former professors, Grambling Mayor Edward Jones and Vicki Brown, have been named as members of these committees.

The Higher Education Transition Committee will make policy recommendations for higher education in Louisiana, particularly looking for ways to increase the state’s investment in higher education and to make college more affordable for students.

Mayor Jones, a 1974 graduate of Grambling State University, has been named a member of the 22-person committee. Jones has nearly 35 years of teaching experience, with the last 25 spent as a faculty member in the Department of English at Grambling State University.

“We have been given the task of making recommendations to the governor-elect on how we can enhance higher education in Louisiana,” Mayor Jones said. “We are interested in how we can better prepare our students in higher education to perform better in the workplace, to give our students the knowledge and skills they need to perform in the workplace, especially in the industries that are located in our state.”

Chaired by Scott Richard, executive director of the Louisiana School Boards Association, the second committee, the K-12 Education Committee, will examine issues important to K-12 public education, including curriculum, assessment, funding, and teacher, school and district accountability.

Vicki Brown, a retired professor in the Department of Educational Leadership, has been named a member of the K-12 Education Committee. Brown has more than 40 years of education experience, including serving as principal of Alma J. Brown Laboratory Elementary School and Grambling Laboratory Middle Magnet School for 20 years and chairperson of the Louisiana Education Consortium.

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