Education
5/8/2013
Delgado, Nunez community colleges to lay off staff
Posted 4:44 PM 5/8/2013 by AP(PHOTO COURTESY: MGN ONLINE)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Delgado Community College in New Orleans plans to lay off more than a hundred employees, including dozens of faculty members, while Nunez Community College in Chalmette also is letting go staff. Both moves were approved Wednesday by the schools' governing board (More)...
SLCC offering career pathway camps this summer
5/7/2013
Teacher Exodus Part 3: Solutions
Posted 3:11 PM 5/8/2013 by Erin Steuber
New teachers in classrooms across Acadiana...that's how the school year is going to start, after hundreds of experienced educators have called it quits. From administrators to teachers, there are more than 200 job openings in schools across Acadiana, but that number is expected to rise. And with (More)...
LEF Awards 30 Grants to LPSS Schools
Years Later: PreK Benefits Continue Into Third and Fourth Grades
Tools for Schools help Northside High
LA Supreme Court: voucher funding unconstitutional
5/6/2013
Teacher Exodus Part 2: What Discipline Issues Are Lafayette Parish Facing?
Posted 10:58 PM 5/7/2013 by Erin Steuber
Teachers are leaving the classroom in record numbers. Some cite changes at the state level, from the retirement system to teacher evaluations. But another key factor is discipline, or lack of, in the classroom. The parent of a Paul Breaux Middle School student wrote to us saying, almost every day (More)...
LPSS Issues Statement Regarding Recent Bomb Threats
Teacher Exodus Part 1: Why Are So Many Leaving the Classroom?
Audit: TOPS canceled for 44 percent of recipients
Educations Scholarships awarded
5/3/2013
Voters to Decide on Property Tax to Support Basile High
Posted 7:03 PM 5/3/2013 by Chris Welty
In Acadia and Evangeline Parishes, voters will decide whether to renew a 10-year property tax to fund the Basile High School Athletic Department.
The tax generates roughly 74-thousand dollars for the school. The property tax, enacted nearly thirty years ago, has been renewed three times. (More)...
UPDATE: All clear given at L.J. Alleman Middle School after bomb scare
5/2/2013
Police Looking for Clues into Pressure Cooker Bomb Threat
Posted 6:02 PM 5/2/2013 by Chris Welty
The search is on for whoever threatened to blow up Broussard Middle School using a pressure cooker bomb.
The campus is on South Morgan Street off the Amabassador Caffery Extension. Around 9:30 Thursday morning, Broussard Police evacuated students to a nearby church.
After a two hour (More)...
UL offers several options for summer study
Paul Breaux Middle School Mourning Loss of Fellow Student
Annual Jr. Beta State Conference
5/1/2013
LPSS budget cuts could reach classrooms
Posted 9:51 PM 5/1/2013 by Tina Macias
The Lafayette Parish School System might have to implement larger class sizes, increase walks to bus stops or postpone the turnaround plan next school year to cover its multi-million dollar shortfall.
Those are just some of the proposals that will be considered to cover a $10 million to (More)...
Computer glitches derail school tests in 3 states
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