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Ascension Parish Assessor M.J. "Mert" Smiley Jr. has been saying for months that local leaders should take a pass on an often little-noted technical adjustment to property rates that can
Ascension Parish public school leaders are mulling the first permanent, across-the-board pay increase for employees in several years after a salary survey found wages for teachers and several categories of
The new $120 million Prairieville High School and a $27 million reconstruction of East Ascension High School aren't quite finished, but school leaders say Ascension Parish is growing so fast
Ascension Parish teachers and other certificated staff will receive $3,500 in one-time payments through next spring amid a competitive labor market that has contributed to teacher shortages in some districts
During the broiling summer days of the new school year, Ascension Parish bus drivers demanded air conditioning for the public system's buses, both for themselves and the students.