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David Glenn Thibodaux (December 1, 1953 – March 24, 2007) was a respected English professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette for 27 years, a member and officer of the Lafayette Parish School Board for twelve years, and a notable political figure and Republican candidate for the United States House of Representatives from Louisiana's 7th congressional district. He was also an author of several books, including ''Political Correctness: The Cloning of the American Mind'', and numerous articles and editorials. ==School board service== In 1994, Thibodaux was elected to the District 7 seat on the Lafayette Parish School Board. He was re-elected in 1998, 2002, and was unopposed for his fourth term in 2006. Thibodaux was elected by the board to serve twice as board president, and had been elected to serve as vice-president in January 2007, just weeks before his death. He worked for a reduction in teacher student ratios, pay increases for teachers, and for additional construction and maintenance of parish schools. He was integral in procuring unitary status in the lingering 40-year-old desegregation lawsuit against the school board. He made an impassioned plea for unitary status before U.S. District Court Judge Richard T. Haik, a brother of another Louisiana Republican leader, Suzanne Haik Terrell of New Orleans. Thibodaux stressed the need for money in the classroom, rather than expanded administration, which frequently placed him at odds with Lafayette Superintendent James Easton. Soon after his death, at the request of Thibodaux's family, the Lafayette Parish School Board appointed Mark Cockerham (born 1976), a former student of Thibodaux's who had worked in his congressional campaign, to fill the District 7 vacancy until a special election could be held in conjunction with the regular primary elections scheduled for October 20, 2007. With the support and endorsement of Thibodaux's family, Cockerham was re-elected to serve a full term in the election that fall. In 2011, the Lafayette Parish School System announced the opening of the David Thibodaux Career and Technical High School. The mission of the new school was to provide students career and technical industry-based certification and college credit, which was a vision Thibodaux had fought for in the years before his death. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Thibodaux」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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