Parents, students, teachers and residents have expressed a range of concerns over the plan, which would bring monumental changes to Louisiana’s largest school district.

As Curt Guaglianone of Mount Adams School District puts it, 2022-23 was "energizing, inspiring and refreshing." But now it's time to take lessons learned from the first "normal" school year since the pandemic and push them forward.

Concerned parents are feeling better about their schools even as pre-pandemic problems like bullying weigh more heavily on families who are seeking easier access to mental health care.

“It is critical that these kids can go to school and learn what happened in the history of America without it being redacted or watered down,” said Glenn Wachter, who is running for an open board seat in the North Clackamas School District.