Charles Lussier
Staff Writer at The Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
Spurned musician-turned-word trafficker. Observes local education in Baton Rouge from perch @theadvocatebr newspaper. And other odd things.
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2 days ago |
theadvocate.com | Charles Lussier
A Baton Rouge judge has applied the brakes to state plans to take over two F-rated public schools in Baker and hand them over to an Indiana-based charter school network. The decision allows City of Baker schools, for now, to retain control of its campus at 5903 Groom Road — historically the home of Baker Middle School — which GEO Academies is planning to turn into a K-8 charter school.
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3 days ago |
theadvocate.com | Charles Lussier
Families in the City of St. George who send their children to popular magnet schools like Baton Rouge Magnet High may get to keep sending them there even if a new St. George school district is formed. That's the intent of legislation filed last week to create a new St. George school system as a companion to the newly formed city of the same name. However, the East Baton Rouge Parish school system has yet to sign on to the idea.
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4 days ago |
theadvocate.com | Charles Lussier
In the sweeping changes that East Baton Rouge Parish Superintendent LaMont Cole is proposing, the stretch of neighborhoods that have long fed into Capitol High would see the most upheaval. The biggest change would be at Capitol High itself. The historically Black high school would give up its longtime home on North 23rd Street and move almost two miles east, where it would merge with Capitol Middle.
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1 week ago |
theadvocate.com | Charles Lussier
Just a few months after unionizing, privately employed school bus drivers in Central and Zachary have voted to unspecified "job action" which, if not resolved, could disrupt school operations for the 10,000-plus children who attend public schools in those communities. School bus giant First Student Inc. employs drivers and other transportation workers, who now are part of Amalgamated Transit Union, ATU, Local 1546.
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1 week ago |
theadvocate.com | Charles Lussier
East Baton Rouge Parish Superintendent LaMont Cole is recommending that four elementary school as well as one middle school be closed, and Capitol middle and high schools merge into one school. Those proposed closures, announced Tuesday afternoon, come on top of already announced closures of J.K. Haynes elementary schools, formerly a charter school, and two large schools run by Texas-based IDEA Public Schools.
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