Rapides School News Today

When Rapides Parish school officials touted progress in district and school performance scores last week, Superintendent Jeff Powell said there never have been as many A schools in the parish before.

A former Rapides Parish substitute teacher has been arrested on multiple counts of rape and other sex crimes allegedly involving underage students.

The Rapides Parish School Board will keep the hair color policy it approved in May, voting 5-4 Tuesday to allow students to wear non-traditional colors.

Mattilla Wiley always wanted to get a college degree and a pilots license and, after a major life change, she decided it was time to make those dreams a reality.

Two school bond issues, which could expand Caroline Dormon Junior High School and build a new football fieldhouse at Tioga High School, are on Saturdays ballot in Rapides Parish, as well as an Alexa…

The Rapides Parish School Board has the opportunity to get up to 25 electric buses through an almost $10 million grant, but will it do it?

An election challenge filed in November by former Rapides School Board member John Allen Jr. was rejected because he filed it wrong.

Crime and utilities dominated discussion among the five Alexandria mayoral candidates at Tuesdays 90-minute forum downtown at the Coughlin-Saunders Performing Arts Center.

Did you know there’s wood cellulose in your ice cream? These Rapides fifth-graders do.

Two Rapides Parish School Board members questioned the measures educational versus punitive aims.