Superintendent Edward D. Brown (File Photo)
Louisiana’s public high school graduation rate reached 77.5 percent in 2015, an all-time high, according to the state Department of Education.
The four-year high school gradation rate increased for the fifth consecutive year in 2015.
Roger Young, a St. Landry Parish School Board member from Eunice, listens to committee discussions on Monday in Opelousas. (Photo by Harlan Krigan)
Roger Young, a St. Landry Parish School Board member from Eunice, listens to committee discussions on Monday in Opelousas. (Photo by Harlan Krigan)
Superintendent Edward Brown listens to a School Board member during a meeting Monday. (Photo by Harlan Kirgan)
St. Landry Parish School Board President Raymond Cassimere, left, and Eunice area School Board member Albert Hayes Jr. hold a plaque recognizing Eunice Junior High School as a Top Gain school in the state’s accountability program. Other Top Gain schools in the parish were Grand Coteau Elementary, Lawtell Elementary, Leonville Elementary, Magnet Academy for Cultural Arts and Port Barre High School. (Photo by Harlan Kirgan)
Adding “music” to a coordinator of instruction’s job description prompted some School Board members to question whether the position is needed.
The personnel committee recommended “music” be added to the job description, which might have seemed like a fairly easy thing to do.
The St. Landry Parish School Board will be asked to buy seven used school buses when its meets this week.
The School Board Finance Committee approved the $375,500 purchase, which must go before the full board at its 4 p.m. meeting in Opelousas.
St. Landry Parish School Superintendent Edward Brown, standing left at the lectern, discusses hiring procedures with School Board members on Thursday. At right, Courtney Joiner, the School Board’s attorney, makes a point about hiring procedures. Seated at center is Sicily Quebedeaux, administrative assistant to Brown. (Photo by Harlan Kirgan)
A St. Landry Parish School Board member who said she was going to ask for an investigation into the school system’s hiring practices last month raised a new complaint Thursday about a plan to hire a receptionist.
