For the second time in three days, a shooting rocks an East Baton Rouge Parish school. A student was shot and wounded while leaving Baker High School this morning. Preston Castille, the president and CEO of Helix Community Schools, the charter school network that Baker High School belongs to, says it happened while summer school was in session.
Cut 12 (08) “…still on campus.”
At the start of this school year, just under half of kindergarten through third grade students could read at or above grade level. By the end of the school year, that number rose to more than 66-percent. John Wyble, the CEO of the Center for Literacy and Learning, says along with a return to the science of reading, the progress can be attributed to schools diligently staying on top of students’ progress in their reading abilities.
Cut 7 (10) “…support and interventions.”
An 80-million-dollar manufacturing facility is coming to Monroe. Louisiana Economic Development Secretary Susan Bourgeois says welcoming Faith Technologies Incorporated to the area is a big win for Monroe.
The 50-thousand-square-foot facility will produce electrical assemblies and energy solutions to ship to project sites along the I-20 corridor. It’s expected to be completed next spring.
A little league team in the north suburbs of Pittsburgh got a surprise visit from the reigning National League Cy Young Award winner Monday evening. Paul Skenes was driving by Ingomar Franklin Park when he saw the lights on for a little league practice and decided to check it out. Eddie Dubis, a coach in the league and father of two of the kids, says it only took a few minutes for the 6-6 superstar to be noticed.