Grolee Elementary News Today

Power has been restored to all schools.

The state Department of Education released the school performance scores today, and some of Acadiana's school districts have released their interpretations of the results.

The boundaries for a Opelousas taxing district within the St. Landry School Board are still being explored.

Vending machines will be offering a different type of brain food to students in St. Landry Parish.

_________________________________________________ ORIGINAL STORY (July 12th): As of yet, there have been no arrests in the case where someone trashed an elementary school in Opelousas. Officials are still working to figure out who is responsible for all of the damage. It is such a sad day when someone has so little to do that they decide to go to an elementary school just to tear things up. That is just the case with Grolee Elementary in Opelousas. Officials with the St. Landry Parish Crime Sto...

Students in southwest Louisiana were out of school for six months in 2020, with varying degrees of "learning opportunities" offered during that time depending on the school district or family situation. Educators fear the time out of the classroom may take until next school year to bring students back to where they were in March 2020. Some connected with teachers via Zoom or weekly phone calls. They were encouraged to log in to online reading programs like Amplify. The younger ones or those wit...

Lafayette Daily Advertiser Renee Boxs three daughters start school every morning at the familys dining room table while she logs on herself to teach third-graders math and language arts. After nine weeks, Megan Romer and Kevin Wimmer found virtual class through Lafayette Online Academy just wasnt a good fit for their 10-year-old son. So they withdrew him to start homeschool instead. Sarah Beth Laughlin decided to homeschool her four school-age children from the start this year. They even took c...