Lafayette students won t have to wear masks to summer school
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Summer school is starting for the Lafayette Parish School System, and students attending in-person do not have to wear masks after a school board vote Wednesday night.
Lafayette students in third grade and up were required to wear masks on campus through the past school year, but Gov. John Bel Edwards removed his statewide mask mandate in April and lifted the school requirement May 25, leaving the decision to the discretion of the local school system.
The Lafayette Parish School Board voted to remove the mask mandate on school campuses effective immediately, affecting high-schoolers who began summer school Thursday and students from K-8 who start next week.
There is a square practice field marked in blue painter s tape on the floor of a classroom at the W. D. & Mary Baker Smith Career Center in Lafayette. On Monday, a 20-pound metal robot navigates the field, rolling on its wheels toward flat orange rings that it will scoop up with a silver arm.
It sucks up the ring and launches it out toward a three-part goal, aiming each time for either the low, middle or high hole to earn points. The FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) robot also can pick up and carry a wobble item from one square to another.
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Kitchens at 16 Lafayette Parish schools that are not air-conditioned could see that changed by next semester, after the Lafayette Parish School Board awarded contracts for the projects Wednesday.
With a slight majority vote, the board approved assigning contracts for mechanical engineering services to two companies ADG Engineering and M&E Consulting, with the schools split between two phases.
ADG will work on Phase 1, which includes Acadiana High, Carencro Middle, Ovey Comeaux High, Katherine Drexel Elementary, J.W. Faulk Elementary, Myrtle Place Elementary and Woodvale Elementary.
M&E will do Phase 2, which comprises Broadmoor Elementary, Broussard Middle, Evangeline Elementary, Judice Middle, Lafayette High, Cpl. Michael Middlebrook Elementary, Ridge Elementary and Truman Early Childhood Education Center.