For the seniors of Southside High, Saturday’s graduation ceremony celebrated more than the finish line of high school — it honored every sacrifice and leap of faith the teens made over the past three years to build the school listed on their diplomas.
Walking at graduation is so 2019.
Carencro High English teacher Pamela Sorensson was named a finalist for 2021 Louisiana Teacher of the Year Friday.
Louisiana’s colleges and universities don’t foresee significant problems from a new federal restriction on international students, barring any major changes in how classes will be offered during the pandemic. But if COVID-19 cases create more wide…
The University of Louisiana at Lafayette has partnered with the Louisiana Department of Health to establish a mobile COVID-19 testing site at Cajun Field.
Safety masks couldn’t mute the proud, joyous shouts of family and friends as roughly 100 Northside High graduates took to Cajun Field on Thursday morning, finally celebrating their postponed graduation ceremony in a moment of triumph after months …
The Lafayette Parish School System has relaxed graduation day dress codes as students prepare to brave the heat to celebrate graduation ceremonies at Cajun Field after an eleventh hour venue change.
All that stood between Rashon Leday and a national speech and debate title was a cellphone camera and a global pandemic.
Lafayette Parish public school graduation ceremonies will now be held outdoors at Cajun Field after plans to host the ceremonies inside the Cajundome were rejected by the state.
A one-man movement at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette to change some building names is finding support, according to a count of petition signatures, which has passed 500. His effort may be one of many around the state, a UL System spokesp…
After 63 years in education, Iberia Parish educator Audrey Ausberry is retiring at the top of her game, leaving what friends say is a legacy of compassion, determination and professionalism that’s unrivaled in her hometown.
Graduating seniors of Lafayette Parish public schools won't walk across the stage at the Cajundome this week because of a disconnect between local and state leaders.
Schools in five Acadiana parishes may be short immersion teachers come August now that a federal change to a temporary visa program is preventing more than 70 foreign language teachers from entering the country.
Impetus to create a doctorate in Justice Studies at the University of New Orleans was first found not in any ivory tower but more on some of the mean urban streets where that city’s homeless and underserved people gather. That’s what Kim Martin Lo…
Students at five Lafayette Parish schools will have new principals when classes resume in August.
The Lafayette Parish school system will require attendees and high school graduates to don masks to attend graduation ceremonies scheduled at the Cajundome next week.
The University of Louisiana at Lafayette on Wednesday announced details regarding its fall semester.
Students at Ridge Elementary are getting a summer reading boost through a $2,000 summer reading literacy grant.
The image of school’s new normal during the novel coronavirus pandemic became clearer Thursday after the Louisiana Department of Education released a framework to guide school districts’ reopening plans. In Lafayette, administrators are consumed w…
The University of Louisiana at Lafayette may have a new, permanent business dean soon.
Voluntary workouts for multiple athletic programs are currently suspended at schools across the Acadiana area, according to school officials.
Lafayette’s two Renaissance Charter academies are investing most of their CARES Act allocations toward purchasing computers and internet hotspots for the fall, focusing on technology and internet access as the foundation of a successful school exp…
Catholic schools — including Lafayette’s — that bar lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender teachers may be protected from lawsuits under federal law, despite a Supreme Court ruling issued last week that shields their unemployment under civil rights law.
UL president: Best case for Lafayette campus in fall is regular classes, football and a huge deficit
University of Louisiana at Lafayette President E. Joseph Savoie on Thursday looked back on the springtime of our widespread fear and forward to our autumn of uncertainty — the former with pride, the latter with hope.
If your college student is coming home for Thanksgiving, Mom and Dad, he or she may be staying for Christmas.
The Lafayette Parish School System is developing contingency plans to prevent a budget shortfall should the novel coronavirus pandemic continue to disrupt sales tax collections in the 2021 fiscal year.
Carencro High English teacher Pamela Sorensson lasted less than a year outside the classroom.
The Lafayette Parish School Board on Wednesday shot down an application from the Lafayette Charter Foundation to expand their charter school programs to the Scott area.
Unnaturally colored hair was OK’d for high school students after prolonged debate at the Lafayette Parish School Board meeting Wednesday, including argument over whether language about braids and hair extensions could lead to targeting of black an…
Paul Hilliard’s two-year tenure as board chairman at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans had provided a series of only highlights — until March. That's when COVID-19 hit and the museum has had to weather some storms since. It reopened …
More than half of the students in 27 of 69 Louisiana school districts lack access to a school-issued or personal laptop computer or tablet, a recent survey by the Louisiana Department of Education shows.
Jim Henderson, University of Louisiana System president, says he’s looking past the fires of evident racism burning on some system campuses and toward a brighter landscape.
South Louisiana Community College this week will deliver on interim Chancellor Vincent June’s promise for meaningful dialogue around race relations and change.
The Lafayette Parish School System is earmarking several million dollars in federal relief funding to purchase computers for students and school sanitation stations as administrators prepare for an uncertain fall semester amid the ongoing coronavi…
A bid to improve Louisiana's dismal reading skills for its youngest students died near the legislative finish line, leaving backers baffled on just what happened.
Like anything new, there were some growing pains.
The Lafayette Public Library’s Go Go Biblio Bookmobile is bringing imagination and adventure to children’s summers with a slate of scheduled stops at area schools this summer, part of an effort to make books accessible and bolster students’ readin…
High school seniors from the New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Lafayette areas have captured 92 of the 115 Louisiana scholarships announced so far as part of the 65th annual National Merit Scholarship Program.
Interim Chancellor Vincent June on Tuesday conceded his own anger and frustration at events last week in Minneapolis, where a black man, George Floyd, died at the hands of local police, and vowed that South Louisiana Community College would hold c…
Accounting for the broad diversity of their spring 2020 graduating class, University of Louisiana at Lafayette officials last month offered this statistic that should not seem as startling as it may appear to be: 62% of the graduates were women. I…
At least three local organizations say they are planning a peaceful rally at 11 a.m. Sunday in solidarity with the people in Minneapolis who are protesting a police-involved death there.
Two on-campus University of Louisiana at Lafayette students have tested positive for COVID-19, spokesman Eric Maron confirmed Saturday. The students shared an on-campus apartment.
South Louisiana Community College felt like home from Vincent June’s second day here in 2016.
The Lafayette Online Academy is planning a move into a larger standalone space as the virtual learning program continues to grow and online learning is increasingly in the spotlight as parents and children navigate uncertain educational terrain am…
Vincent June, vice chancellor for academic and student affairs, has been appointed interim chancellor at South Louisiana Community College.
Students requiring remediation over the summer are returning to the classroom in less than two weeks, but this year the Lafayette Parish School System’s summer school offerings are going fully online.
Planning for operations at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette into 2021 is proving to be a daily task, with lengthy meetings and information and data sharing as top campus officials develop a “nimble” blueprint for meeting the challenges of …
Maybe this downside to Acadiana’s community college wasn’t made plain to Natalie Harder when she first applied for the chancellor’s job in 2012. Maybe she just overlooked it.
With the 2020-2021 budget cycle complete, advocates for a rebuilt Lafayette High are one step closer to launching the high school rebuilding project.
Rhett Pelloquin recalled the "crazy ride" Southside High School's first graduating class has had for the Youngsville City Council during last week's video meeting.
Acadiana area school systems are moving ahead with in-person graduation ceremonies after Gov. John Bel Edwards released guidance on Phase 1 of the state’s novel coronavirus reopening this week.