The Louisiana Board of Regents met Wednesday for the first time of the new academic year to address a variety of business, notably to recognize Louisiana’s most outstanding educators, set
Principal Monya Thomas-Criddle looked at the hundreds of first through fifth-grade students sitting cross-legged in rows inside the Ralph J. Bunche Elementary School gymnasium and smiled wide.
Tia Mechelle Trahan, principal of Lafayette Middle School, was given the state honor. She's a National Board Certified Teacher, and was the parish teacher of the year in 2007.