FILE - In this Feb. 13, 2012 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks at Northern Virginia Community College in Annandale, Va. Access to college has been the driving force in federal higher education policy for decades. But the Obama administration is pushing a fundamental agenda shift that aggressively brings a new question into the debate: What are people getting for their money? (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Access to college has been the
driving force in federal higher education policy for decades. But the
Obama
administration is pushing a fundamental agenda shift that
aggressively brings a new question into the debate: What are people
getting for their money?
Students wit ...
BY ASHLEY WITHERS / AMERICAN PRESS
The Louisiana Community and Technical College System has begun a national search for a new chancellor for Sowela Technical
Community College.
Joe May, system president, outlined the search process in a meeting with the American Press this week.
“We are looking for someone we believe will b ...
BY ASHLEY WITHERS / AMERICAN PRESS
Fourth-grader Philip Melton is
looking out over the horizon. He is keeping the nose of the plane steady
and has one foot hovering
over the brakes, ready for anything.
“I think something is wrong with your air speed,” his teacher Patsy Moore explained. “When it gets to 60, lift ...
The following lunch menus for Monday-Friday, Feb. 20-24 have been submitted by supervisors of food services from area schools. Menus are subject to change.
BEAUREGARD PARISH
Monday: No school.
Tuesday: No school.
Wednesday: Country vegetable soup, grilled cheese sandwich, salad and apple ...
BATON ROUGE (AP) — A legislative committee has approved a $275,000 annual salary for John White, the state's new superintendent of education.The contract authorized Friday by the Joint Legislative Budget Committee includes a provision for 6 percent annual pay increases for White if he receives ...
BATON ROUGE (AP) — East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff's deputies say two Broadmoor Middle School students were arrested after an unloaded gun was found at school.Casey Rayborn Hicks, a sheriff's office spokeswoman, an unnamed student reported seeing two other students with a gun at 8:30 a.m. Thur ...
BATON ROUGE (AP) — The Louisiana Board of Regents has decided that high school students graduating without an arts class credit next year can still be accepted into state universities.
Theresa Hay, Regents associate commissioner for strategic initiatives, says not delaying the change until 20 ...
BY DORIS MARICLE / AMERICAN PRESS
HATHAWAY — As assistant principal at Hathaway High School for the past four years, Sharon Phenice Ardoin’s focus has always been on the students.
“I love being with the kids,” Ardoin said. “Even though I am the assistant principal, I still go in the classrooms and I do ...
BY TODD C. ELLIOTT / AMERICAN PRESS
T.S. Cooley Elementary topped all schools in Calcasieu Parish and is one of six elementary schools that have been ranked among the parish’s top 10 public schools, according to a list from School Superintendent Wayne Savoy.
The list, based on 2011 School Performance Scores, also gives the scho ...
BY NATALIE STEWART / AMERICAN PRESS
Students at Dolby Elementary are “Rockin with Roderick” to help a local family with medical costs.
Second-grader Roderick Christian was diagnosed with bone cancer at the beginning of the school year, Kate Valentine, third-grade teacher and student council sponsor, said.
The school&rsq ...
BY TODD C. ELLIOTT / AMERICAN PRESS
CARLYSS — The first “Report Card Day” of the 2011 school year brought chatter among students to the hallways of Cypress Cove Elementary.
Hopeful and excited students spoke openly with their classmates about things like what new Nintendo DS game they were going to get from their pa ...
