St. Landry Parish School Board

Christmas bonus up in the air

St. Landry Parish School Board members will have a chance to resolve a disagreement about how much of a Christmas bonus to give to school employees. The School Board is scheduled to meet at 4 p.m. today the Opelousas Civic Center on Creswell Lane. The discord arose in the Board’s Oct.

School Board to get tax proposals

Two tax propositions — one for 11.4 mills and the other for 12.4 mills — were passed out of committee and now are headed to the Nov. 2 St. Landry School Board meeting. The 11.4-mill, 10-year property tax is to raise $7 million annual to fund pay raises, which the proposition does not detail.

LSUE ACADEMY

Six of the 64 high school students enrolled in the LSUE Academy were introduced at the St. Landry Parish School Board meeting Thursday. LSUE Chancellor Kimberly Russell explained that the LSUE Academy is about six weeks old and has 22 students from St. Landry Parish public schools.

Economic group to help pay for parish school strategic plan

The St. Landry Economic Development Board voted to share in the cost of a strategic plan for the St. Landry Parish School Board. On Tuesday, the Board approved sharing the $115,800 cost with Vision St. Landry, the School Board and the Greater Opelousas Economic and Industrial Devolopment Council.

6 students from Texas enrolled in St. Landry Parish public schools

Six students from Texas have been enrolled in St. Landry Parish public schools since Tropical Storm Harvey flooded southeast Texas, Superintendent Patrick Jenkins said. Those displaced because of the storm, may visit the St. Landry Parish School Board Office Instructional Resource Center for 8 a.m.

Public school student count to decline

St. Landry Parish public school enrollment is projected to decrease by 901 students from the 2016 count. A 10-year projection is that the number of students will drop from 2013’s 14,808 to 12,959 in 2023. The enrollment projections were presented Tuesday to a meeting of the St.

‘Blackface’ hazing to be probed

The Lafayette Diocese and St. Edmund administrators said they are investigating a reported case of a hazing involving cheerleaders at St. Edmund High School wearing “blackface.

Back to school

Eunice High School employees listen as St. Landry Parish Superintendent Patrick Jenkins speaks over a closed circuit television in the Opelousas Senior High School gymnasium during the school district’s first convocation themed “Great Expectations” on Tuesday.

Parish students lag behind state LEAP test scores

St. Landry Parish students fell behind the state LEAP results for scoring at the Basic and above level, according to results reported at the School Board’s Academic Committee meeting.

Board sticks to new bus schedule

School bus schedules will remain unchanged as the Aug. 9 first day of school nears, but St. Landry Parish School Board members decided to review school bus driver route selection.