2-11-15
CRIME STOPPERS OF ACADIA PARISH IS ISSUING A REWARD FOR INFORMATION LEADING TO THE ARREST OF FOUR SUSPECTS WHO VANDALIZED A TENNIS COURT AT THE CROWLEY RECREATION DEPARTMENT. VIDEO SURVEILLANCE SHOWED THE FOUR DAMAGING THE TENNIS COURT. ACCORDING TO THE VIDEO, THE SUSPECTS ARE A WHITE MALE, A BLACK MALE, AND TWO WHITE FEMALES. IF YOU HAVE INFORMATION, IT CAN BE GIVEN ANONYMOUSLY TO CRIMESTOPPERS AT 789-TIPS.
BAIL HAS BEEN SET AT 145 THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR AN ELTON HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER, WHO IS ACCUSED OF INAPPROPRIATE RELATIONSHIPS WITH STUDENTS. 35-YEAR-OLD JOSEPH FRUGE WAS ARRESTED IN JANUARY ON TWO COUNTS OF MOLESTATION OF A JUVENILE. FRUGE WAS REARRESTED ON FRIDAY AND BOOKED INTO THE JEFFERSON DAVIS PARISH JAIL ON SIX COUNTS OF PROHIBITED SEXUAL CONTACT BETWEEN AN EDUCATOR AND A STUDENT. HE ALSO FACES FOUR MORE COUNTS OF MOLESTATION OF A JUVENILE AND ONE COUNT OF INDECENT BEHAVIOR WITH A JUVENILE.
THE PARENTS OF THIRTEEN LAFAYETTE PARISH SCHOOL STUDENTS HAVE OPTED THEM OUT OF TAKING A NEW STANDARDIZED TEST NEXT MONTH. THE PARCC TEST IS REPLACING THE LEAP STANDARDIZED TESTS FOR STUDENTS IN THE THIRD THROUGH EIGHTH GRADES. SOME PARENTS HAVE EXPRESSED CONCERNS ABOUT THE NECESSITY OF THE NEW TESTS AND HOW THEY WILL BE USED. THE SCHOOL SYSTEM RECEIVED THEIR FIRST OPT OUT PAPERWORK IN MID-JANUARY, BUT MOST OF THE OPT OUTS HAVE OCCURRED WITHIN THE LAST WEEK.
Fourteen of Louisiana’s public school districts have passed resolutions aimed at preventing schools from being penalized for students who skip Common Core standardized tests. The Advocate reports that’s the number tallied by the Louisiana Schools Boards Association. Common Core represents new standards in reading, writing and math that are being fully implemented this year. BESE will discuss the issue at its March 5 meeting.
The state education board is being urged to delay the use of a teacher evaluation system tied to student performance data for another year. A study group set up by state lawmakers to look at the divisive evaluation method voted Tuesday on its recommendations to the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education and to state lawmakers. At issue is a 2010 law pushed by Gov. Bobby Jindal that requires some public school teachers to be graded on student test scores, with half the teacher’s review tied to the growth in student achievement on standardized tests.
The law has generated controversy and complaints — and BESE stalled that evaluation requirement last year and this year while the state switched over to new standardized testing.
WHAT BEGAN AS A NORMAL ROUNDUP OPERATION SUNDAY NIGHT ENDED MONDAY IN THE ARREST OF ONE OF HOUSTON’S MOST WANTED GANG MEMBERS. JULIE DARCE HAS MORE.
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THE BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF LAKE CHARLES HAS RECEIVED HUNDREDS OF CALLS ABOUT AN IRS SCAM. CARMEN MILLION SAYS THE COMPLAINANTS SAY THEY HAVE RECEIVED A TELEPHONE CALL FROM A PERSON CLAIMING TO BE WITH THE IRS. SHE SAYS THE PERSON TELLS THEM THEY OWE BACK TAXES AND THREATENS TO ARREST THEM IF THEY DON’T PAY. MILLION SAYS THE IRS OPERATES THROUGH WRITTEN NOTICES AND NEVER ASKS FOR PERSONAL INFORMATION OVER THE PHONE.
LUS WILL GET ANOTHER SHOT TO CONTINUE TO BE THE INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER FOR THE LAFAYETTE PARISH SCHOOL SYSTEM. LUS, WHICH HAS BEEN THE INTERNET PROVIDER FOR THE SCHOOL SYSTEM FOR TEN YEARS, DID NOT SUBMIT A PROPOSAL WHEN THE SCHOOL SYSTEM CALLED FOR IT. LUS DIRECTOR TERRY HUVAL SAYS THERE WERE CHANGES IN THE TIMELINE THEY WEREN’T AWARE OF UNTIL IT WAS TOO LATE TO SUBMIT A PROPOSAL. THE SCHOOL SYSTEM’S TECHNOLOGY DIRECTOR LASHONA DICKERSON SAYS THEY WILL SEND OUT NEW REQUESTS FOR PROPOSALS, PROBABLY BEGINNING TODAY.
