After student scores on standardized tests plummeted during the coronavirus pandemic, some Louisiana education leaders are calling to scrap this year’s letter grades for K-12 public schools, a key benchmark in the state’s accountability system.
Livingston Schools to offer virtual program for elementary school students
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Thursday, June 10 2021
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LIVINGSTON - According to a Thursday morning news release, Livingston Parish Public Schools is offering a hybrid virtual learning option for third graders, fourth graders, and fifth graders who might benefit from partial online instruction for the 2021-2022 school year.
School officials say applications are now being accepted.
The program will be an expansion of the district’s current 100 percent virtual program that opened to qualified students in grades 6-12 last school year. The district’s virtual programs are not social distance learning options in response to the COVID pandemic.
Concordia Parish school board taps employee for next superintendent
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Wednesday, May 19 2021
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VIDALIA, La. (AP) The Concordia Parish School Board has found a replacement for Superintendent Whest Shirley, whose contract was not renewed last year.
At a special meeting Monday, the board chose Toyua Watson for the east-central Louisiana district’s next leader, The Natchez Democrat reported.
Watson has served as director of secondary education in Concordia Parish since 2018. She obtained her master’s degree in education from Northwestern State University and has more than a decade of educational experience in teaching, counseling and special program management.