Five years ago, Mary Trufant retired after a 33-year career teaching mostly math to middle schoolers at Henry Ford Middle School in Avondale and Livaudais Middle School in Terrytown.
Principal Monya Thomas-Criddle looked at the hundreds of first through fifth-grade students sitting cross-legged in rows inside the Ralph J. Bunche Elementary School gymnasium and smiled wide.
In the aftermath of a crucial Jefferson Parish School Board vote that will allow for the closure and merger of several public schools, Grace King High sophomore Jasmin Sevilla says it is still hard grasping her reality.
Jefferson Parish School Board has opted to consolidate seven schools and relocate two others, while creating a new school and building two new campuses.