Lamar williams, and mr. President and madam clerk, i would like the opportunity to share a few words on mr. Williams after supervisor walton did his in memoriam as he has deep ties to both district five and district 10. President yee okay. Madam clerk, go ahead. Clerk thank you, supervisor preston. Supervisor ronen . Supervisor ronen thank you. While i didnt have the honor of knowing tui, so many people that i care about cared so much about her, and i just wanted to express my condolences to her husband and family as well as to our colleague, sonny angulo. What a tremendous loss. In addition, im introducing a resolution today, urging Governor Newsom and the department of Public Health to prioritize californias Public School educators for phase one vaccine access. In the early stages of this pandemic, San Francisco and other communities across the state closed schools to slow the spread of the coronavirus across our community. Schools responded by instantly switching to Online Learning
Charlie Duthu remembers his school days fondly despite the racially segregated arrangement enforced in Terrebonne Parish and across the South.
Duthu, a 73-year-old United Houma Nation tribal member, attended Daigleville School while the parish operated a public school system that segregated campuses three ways: all white, all Black, all Native American.
“I’m glad that the School Board allowed us to have our own school, said Duthu, who graduated from the Houma school in 1966. There was a stigma back then against us.
The U.S. Supreme Court struck down racial segregation in public schools with the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, but Terrebonne still divided students according to their skin color.
A federal judge in New Orleans has scheduled a hearing for May 3 on a lawsuit filed by the United Houma Nation contesting the sale of a historic school building in Houma.
The tribe filed the lawsuit in February against the Terrebonne Parish School Board. The tribe claims the board sold the Daigleville School for half its appraised value without notifying the tribe.
The board sold the school property to Walter Guidry of Montegut for $115,000, according to the suit.
The school, at 8542 E. Main St. in Houma, was jointly run by the United Houma Nation and the School Board under an agreement signed in May 2015, the lawsuit says.
Terrebonne Parish School Board sold precious Native American icon behind Houma Tribe s back, lawsuit says louisianarecord.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from louisianarecord.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.