Some Louisiana schools are moving to four-day work weeks. David Claxton, the executive director of the Louisiana Association of School Superintendents and Administrators, says four-day schools will still have to adhere to the state law requiring 63,720 minutes of instruction time per school year.
Cut 21 (09) “…five-day week gets.”
As for whether a four-day week has any effect on student achievement in either direction, Claxton says there’s currently not enough data to make a determination one way or the other.
It’s Lent and this is when many Catholics eat a healthy supply of seafood. Harlan Pearch of Harlan’s LA Fish in Kenner says crabs are expensive right now and there is shrimp available, but the supply does not pick up until April and May. He says there is crawfish and prices will go down as we get closer to Easter…
A Rapides Parish woman is convicted in connection with a wildfire west of Glenmora nearly three years ago. Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Mike Strain says Carrie Willis was negligent as she was burning household trash on her property.
Cut 6 (14) “…a pine plantation.”
Strain says the guilty verdict will cost Willis almost ten-thousand dollars as part of her sentence.
The University of Louisiana at Lafayette athletics is mourning the death of former basketball standout Bo Lamar who died earlier this week in his hometown of Columbus, Ohio at the age of 74. Lamar starred for the Ragin Cajuns from 1969 to 1973 and was one of the best basketball players in the country. Kevin Foote covers U-L Lafayette athletics for the Advocate…
Cut 9 (07) “…mid major programs.”
Lamar averaged 31 points a game during his career and over his final three seasons, the Cajuns were 74-13 and only UCLA had a higher winning percentage.