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Yahoo
16-05-2025
- General
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LPSS teachers get salary raise, starting at $50K
LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY)– The Lafayette Parish School Board has reached a decision to increase pay for all teachers within the parish. With the item approved, teachers would receive a starting salary of $50,000, which is $2,000 more than any other starting pay in the district. These salary increases are from savings in LPSS' budget from the district office optimization and consolidation and staffing adjustments. This comes after feedback was received from two teacher focus groups, four informational meetings at school sites, and multiple advisory panels about the impact of the increase in salary. In addition to this, there will also be stipends for clubs and organizations, teacher assignments, playoff stipends, and stipends for meeting certain student performance standards. Close Thanks for signing up! Watch for us in your inbox. Subscribe Now Other pay incentives for teachers included compensation for working extended seasons, compensation for working with student clubs and organizations, and compensation for teachers who teach courses with state assessments. Lafayette police honor Jolivette and Middlebrook in Memorial Week LPSS teachers get salary raise, starting at $50K St. Landry Evangeline Sexual Assault Center loses funding Hot & Dry Days Through the Weekend With Showers Possible Next Week… Father condemns Lafayette teachers after allegedly assaulting a student Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
16-04-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Lafayette Public Schools, ULL announce Spring Break schedules that begin Friday
Students across Lafayette Parish will get some time off as all public schools prepare to close for spring break. Lafayette's Easter/Spring Break for K-12 will be April 18 to 25, according to the Lafayette Parish School Board's website. The University of Louisiana at Lafayette's Easter/Spring Break for students will be Friday through April 27. Administrative offices will be open from April 22 to April 25. This article originally appeared on Lafayette Daily Advertiser: Lafayette Parish schools, UL Lafayette announce Spring Break schedules
Yahoo
12-04-2025
- Climate
- Yahoo
2025-2026 LPSS Revised Dress Code For Students
LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY)– The Lafayette Parish School Board made some changes to the dress code for the 2025-2026 school year in hopes to hopefully make things easier on parents. Tracy Wirtz, communication specialists, said LPSS did a survey and had 2000 respondents who wanted them to relax the dress code in some way. 'One of those relaxation was adding blue jeans to the mix of the bottoms that students could wear. They don't have to wear blue jeans, but it's another option for them. Of course, you still have the khakis, etc., but blue jeans are now added to that mix,' Wirtz said. Another change is hoodies. Wirtz said they heard that among the younger kids, it may be difficult to find hood less garments especially since they grow out of them so often. Ikerra Wilson, a parent whose child attends a school within LPSS expressed her appreciation for the changes in the policy. 'The changes that they did make, it was needed,' Wilson said. In January, Wilson spoke with News 10 about a concern on the dress code after her son was left outside in the cold without his coat that had a hood on it. 'The whole situation with my kid, it was so devastating to see and knowing that any other kid could have went through that situation and no one fought for it and to know that I was able to make that change it was a relief knowing that I was able to do that and knowing that it took my son to make a change,' Wilson said. 'It's a lot that people don't think that they can change around here, and it's a lot that we can change, but they just don't fight for it.' 'From a safety standpoint, LPSS hasn't seen any issues with that K through five groupings in terms of the hoodies. So essentially what they did is now pre-K through five students will be allowed to wear hooded garments, sweatshirts, sweaters, jackets, coats, those sorts of things,' Wirtz explained. The thing to remember, though, that's really important is once they get into the school, they won't be able to wear the hoods. So it's for an outside kind of warmth thing and it's an option again for those elementary students. Hooded garments will not be allowed in middle and high school at this point.' The changes that are going into effect will be for the 2025-2026 school year and are not for the current school year. Wilson encourages parents no matter what 'to always fight for your babies because they can't fight for themselves. We have to do that for them.' 'We really want the community to know that LPSS is responsive to their wants, their needs, the things that they want to see in our school systems. As long as whatever those things are, they point back to academic success for the children,' said Wirtz. You can see the full changes in the dress code policy here. Trump says he would respect Supreme Court decision to return wrongly deported man Mendoza Ford raffle raises $120,000 for Vermilion Parish schools What is the historical significance of the New Iberia Spanish Festival? 2025-2026 LPSS Revised Dress Code For Students Notre Dame High School improving the Pioneer Legacy Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
28-01-2025
- Politics
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St. Landry Schools Pronoun Policy, 'They talk about the closet for a reason'
OPELOUSAS, La. (KLFY)– St. Landry Parish School Board is discussing adopting a new pronoun policy that does not require teachers to call students by their preferred pronoun. This policy aligns with state rules. The was adopted by the state last year, requiring each public-school governing authority to adopt the policy ensuring students' legal names and pronouns are used at school. The policy being discussed in St. Landry Parish reads, 'An employee of the St. Landry Parish School Board shall not be required to address a student by a name other than the student's legal name, or a derivative thereof, and the employee shall not be required to use a pronoun that is inconsistent with the student's sex.' Louisiana legislative session ends with big wins for conservatives on social issues, compromises on major policies The policy outlines consequences for those who don't comply. 'lf a school employee refers to a minor student by a pronoun that is inconsistent with thestudent's sex or refers to the student by a name other than the student's legal name, or aderivative thereof, the parent may seek corrective action by the school principal so thatthe student will be addressed according to the student's sex.' 'lf the school principal intentionally refuses to implement corrective action, or, if after theschool principal implements corrective action, an employee intentionally refuses to honorthe corrective action, then the parent shall have remedies as follow:An employee, parent of a minor student, or a student who has reached the ageof majority aggrieved by an intentional violation of La. Rev. Stat. Ann. 917:2122by a public school shall have a private cause of action for injunctive relief,monetary damages, reasonable attorney fees and costs, and any otherappropriate relief.' Lafayette Parish School Board adopted the same policy last month. Local LGBTQ+ activist Matthew Humphrey (he/him) told News Ten this policy creates consequences for queer children. 'These kids already feel different inside. They're struggling with something that even their educators don't understand and refuse to try to understand,' Humphrey said. 'They're navigating uncharted waters, and now they're being told that the place that is supposed to be safe for them, that they go every day, and the teachers that are supposed to teach them how to do life, don't even have to respect how they feel inside.' He also said the pronoun policy seems to serve no purpose. 'I don't think it actually serves any sort of purpose for the school board. I don't think it serves a purpose for the school or the children that are in it,' Humphrey said. Humphrey said if he could tell lawmakers who pushed the 'Given Name Act' anything, he would ask them to 'leave the kids alone.' 'If I were sitting with a group of trans kids, and we were reading over this policy, I would tell them that, 'Okay, well, then just hide yourself in school, because that's what they're telling you to do,'' Humphrey said. 'It's not as though we haven't always been doing this.' He continued, 'They talk about the closet for a reason, and we get put there. We get told that we have to stay in there, so that other people are comfortable with pretending that we don't exist. And we do exist.' One school board member told News Ten this discussion is to determine whether or not this policy will be brought before the board to be voted on in the next board meeting. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
