St. Landry Parish school calendar includes the following.
First day for students — Thursday, Aug. 13.
Labor Day — Monday, Sept. 7.
Early dismissal — Sept. 16.
Staff professional development days — Thursday and Friday, Oct. 8-9.
Eric LaFleur, a bond attorney, explains a $10 million bond issue the St. Landry Parish School Board approved Thursday night. The 20-year bond issue is to fund capital improvements such as new buildings. There is no tax increase associated with the bond issue. (Photo by Harlan Kirgan)
After approving $3.8 million in construction at Leonville Elementary, the St. Landry Parish School Board voted for a $10 million bond issue.
The bond would be used to pay for the Leonville project to build a new cafeteria and 18 classrooms, and other, as yet undecided, projects.
Mary Ellen Donatto, a Eunice St. Landry Parish School Board member, speaks about a retreat for board members. (Photo by Harlan Kirgan)
St. Landry Parish School Board members may hold a retreat to discuss the school district’s finances and building plans.
The board’s Building, Lands and Sites Committee agreed recently to seek to determine if the legal firm it employs could provide a mediator for a retreat.
The St. Landry Parish School Board will be asked to request its administrators account for its 16th Section land.
Mary Ellen Donatto, a St. Landry Parish School Board member told Eunice Rotary Club members Tuesday she would like to see the parish’s truancy rate decrease and the graduation rate increase. (Photo by Claudette Olivier)
By the lowering truancy rate and increasing the graduation rate, St. Landry Parish School Board member Mary Ellen Donatto believes that more businesses – and more tax dollars – will come into the parish.
