Sandrine Le Galliard was in a teachers’ in-service at her school in France when she learned through Facebook posts of the devastation Hurricane Laura brought to Southwest Louisiana.
BATON ROUGE — Louisiana 4-H members and LSU AgCenter agents have been offering hope, help and supplies to communities recovering from Hurricane Laura’s statewide trail of devastation.
LAKE CHARLES – SOWELA Technical Community will resume classes online only on Friday, September 25, 2020 for students at its main campus in Lake Charles, and classes will resume on the same date in person and online at its Jennings and Oakdale campuses. Major repairs are underway at the SOWEL…
Calcasieu Parish schools are tentatively scheduled to go all virtual as early as Sept. 28 after Hurricane Laura damaged more than 97 percent of the district’s campuses.
The Calcasieu Parish School Board released its plans for the 2020-21 school year on Wednesday. The 15-page document outlines the district’s calendar and schedule, hygiene and safety protocols, transportation plans and more.
Beginning Wednesday, April 1, the Calcasieu Parish School Board will be supplying meals for students at two locations in the parish. These meals will be available to anyone 18 years of age or younger or up to age 21 for CPSB Special Education students with a valid CPSB student ID.
Although the Calcasieu Parish School Board has closed down its feeding sites at various parish schools, the district is looking into other alternatives, according to Holly Holland with the CPSB.
BATON ROUGE — Gov. John Bel Edwards today signed a proclamation that among other actions immediately halts any gathering of more than 250 people until Monday, April 13, which closes all K-12 public schools statewide effective Monday, March 16 resuming Monday, April 13, as Louisiana seeks to …
A Sulphur woman who was a teacher at Lake Charles Charter Academy was taken into custody by the Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office for allegedly having an inappropriate relationship with a 10-year-old boy.
Students in Nichole Trahan’s fifth grade class at Our Lady’s School were crestfallen Monday after returning to their classroom to find an “antique” cookie jar smashed on the floor, along with all the cookies they had been promised.
High school students from four parishes, including Calcasieu, demonstrated their skills in the District 9 FFA Craft competition held last week at the ABC Pelican Southwest Training Center.
Members of the Sulphur High School Community Impact Program, or SCIP, spoke to the Sulphur City Council Monday night about their current project.
There are 2,000 foreign students currently living and atrending school in the United States and Canada through the International Student Exchange Program.
When local author Heather R. Key decided to donate copies of her latest children’s book to a worthy cause, she knew just who to contact.
Setting a precedent in Calcasieu Parish and serving as a model for future endeavors of its kind, a ribbon cutting ceremony was held for the parish’s first STEM school at E.K. Key Elementary on Monday, August 20.
Editor’s Note: This is the third of a three-part series focusing on McNeese President Dr. Daryl Burckel’s crusade to increase McNeese enrollment and improve the college experience for MSU students.
Editor’s Note: This is the second of a three-part series focusing on McNeese President Dr. Daryl Burckel’s crusade to increase McNeese enrollment and improve the college experience for MSU students.
SOWELA Chancellor Dr. Neil Aspinwall spoke at the West Cal Chamber of Commerce meeting Thursday about the $10.2 million culinary, gaming and hospitality center planned for its main campus in Lake Charles.
A little over a year after ascending to the position of McNeese State University President, Dr. Daryl Burckel is rolling up his sleeves and going to work with one goal in mind — make McNeese … “Your McNeese.”
A team of Sulphur High School students unveiled the end result of their vision to address a community need at an event held at Our Lady’s School Wednesday.
With school just around the corner, West Calcasieu Cameron Hospital’s Director of its Shots for Tots program and immunization specialist, Christa O’Neal, is expecting a full office this next week.
Going forward, the Sulphur Senior Center at 601 Maple Street bears a new name. The complex was rededicated Saturday as the Birdie Aikens Senior Center, in memory of the first principal of the first colored school in Sulphur, built on the property.
More than 200 students gathered at the West Cal Events Center with their families and instructors Thursday night for the Southwest Training Center’s Fall and Spring semesters graduation.
Sulphur and its residents are rich in history, a fact made evident to local students during a recent research project.
Sulphur sisters Sarah and Sophie Medwick have been raising funds to attend the Philadelphia International Music Camp and Festival this summer.
Sulphur City Council members read to Maplewood Elementary students at a Spring Into Reading literacy event held at CIRCLE Center West Monday, May 14.
Travis Lambert, a 2008 Sulphur High graduate, was recently named Dr. Karl Stockhausen Student of the Semester at American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine (AUC), where he is currently studying medicine.
Members of the Sulphur High School Community Impact Program, or SCIP, spoke to the Sulphur City Council Monday night about their current project.
DeQuincy High School Senior Ian Trahan recently received the prestigious Homer Hitt Scholarship from the University of New Orleans.
A 12-year-old Sulphur girl is in critical condition this morning after being hit by a car attempting to cross a street to board a school bus Friday morning.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Authorities have investigated at least 106 threats of violence in or near schools in Louisiana since the Feb. 14 mass shooting at a Florida high school, state police and the FBI said Monday. The news came as the University of New Orleans was reopening its campus following …
LAKE CHARLES — The McNeese State University College of Engineering and Computer Science has received a donation of $185,000 from Westlake Chemical to establish a study center for its students.
WESTLAKE — Calcasieu Parish School Superintendent Karl Bruchhaus recently addressed the parish’s early childhood education programs, which he called an “area of controversy.”
WESTLAKE — Calcasieu Parish’s top education official told those gathered for the February lunch meeting of the West Cal Chamber Thursday that parents need to be prepared to see school scores drop by 10 points, across the board.
For the past 28 years, Frasch Elementary School has offered students in kindergarten through fifth grade the opportunity to work toward mastery of a foreign language.
MOSS BLUFF — Parents of students at Sam Houston High School are experiencing life in the classroom again, listening to lectures, attending band practice and eating lunch in the cafeteria.
Sulphur High School students are working to mitigate the environmental impact of traffic in their community, and, in the process, have secured their school thousands of dollars worth of technology.
At the Wednesday meeting of the Sulphur Rotary Club, Sulphur High seniors Christina Cryer and Heather Foreman were honored as Students of the Week.
MOSS BLUFF — For some fifth graders at Moss Bluff Elementary, another day at school is something to be anticipated. Sixteen students chosen from among the seven fifth grade classes at the school recently participated in National STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Day on …
R.W. Vincent Elementary in Sulphur has much to be thankful for this November. Recently released state results show the school brought its School Performance Score up 22 percent — from 72, or “C,”to 93.2, or “B.”
The Louisiana Department of Education, yesterday, unveiled an interactive online tool designed to assist families locate and evaluate schools and child care centers throughout the state.
It has been 10 years since a bond proposition went before Calcasieu voters in the Westlake and Maplewood areas. On Nov. 18, voters in that district will be asked to consider a $56.3 million, 9.10 mill bond issue for repairs and improvements at five schools.
BATON ROUGE (AP) — Louisiana's contested redesign of statewide public school policies, submitted by education officials over the objections of Gov. John Bel Edwards, received federal approval Tuesday.
Calcasieu schools are back in session this Tuesday and city officials are offering some advice to motorists.
The Calcasieu Parish School Board announced Thursday that the average 2016-17 ACT score of CPSB students increased from 19.7 to 20, a score 0.4 greater than the state average.
BATON ROUGE (AP) — Louisiana's public high school students performed slightly better on the ACT college readiness test in the most recent results, continuing a trend of improvement for the last four years, according to data released Wednesday.
BATON ROUGE — The new school year is almost here, but will your child be ready? Besides shopping for supplies, the back-to-school checklist should include making sure your child has an up-to-date immunization record.
Sulphur High School graduate Taylor Fontenot has been selected as the Care Help of Sulphur’s 2017 Community Scholarship recipient.
The parish’s top school official spoke to Sulphur Rotarians Wednesday about some of the biggest challenges facing his administration and the efforts to meet them going into this school year.
Katherine Gertz, a fourth grade science teacher at E.K. Key Elementary, has been aboard the exploration vessel E/V Nautilus in her capacity as Ocean Exploration Trust Ambassador for the past week. The Ambassadorship is part of the OET’s Community STEM Program which CITGO funds in Louisiana, …
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