A white man who stabbed a Black college student to death at a bus stop on the University of Maryland’s campus has been sentenced to life in prison for what prosecutors claimed was a racially motivated hate crime.
The East Baton Rouge Parish school system is entering into negotiations to buy up to 46 acres of land just west of the intersection of I-10 and Siegen Lane, land that could become home to the first new neighborhood public schools in southeast Baton Rouge in decades.
The prospective land purchase is an important step in a long-running effort to build more schools in this school-scarce portion of the parish. To finance the purchase, the school system plans to tap into a $10 million pot of money established by voters in April 2018 when they renewed a 1-cent sales tax earmarked for education. The money is designated to buy land somewhere in the vicinity.
Exterior of the former Banks Elementary School located on 72nd Avenue Wednesday December 9, 2020, in Baton Rouge, La. School officials are seeking to move EBR Readiness Academy, a small alternative school for high school students with discipline problems, from its current dilapidated home and to do so over the Christmas break, but thereâs disagreement about where to move. The proposal is to move it from its current home, the former Banks Elementary, to the former home of Glen Oaks Middle. Neither building is in great shape and both are slated to be demolished, but EBR school officials say Glen Oaks Middle is in better shape and with about three weeks of cleanup it could work for at least a semester to house the alternative schools. Board members are balking at the move and demanding a better home, but the school system says there are many alternatives, especially for such a quick move. Board member Dadrius Lanus is particularly against the idea, having gone to Glen Oaks Middle a