School closings are among issues facing School Board
St. Landry Parish School Board Member Mary Ellen Donatto makes her point about closing or consolidating schools at meeting on Monday. (Photos by Harlan Kirgan)
One St. Landry Parish School Board member referred to this as “time to rip the Band-Aid off.”
That’s about closing some schools in the parish — Washington, Palmetto and Grand Prairie.
But it is also about how the district spends a dwindling amount of COVID relief money and there is a possible new taxing district in the Opelouas High School attendance zone.
The School Board met for a retreat o…
