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Livingston Parish has been able to fill most of its teaching vacancies before classes start Friday, despite ending last year with an outcry over educator pay.
In an effort to find money to give teachers a pay increase, a special Livingston Parish school system task force will soon hire a consultant to conduct a full review
. One Thursday this fall, a middle schooler in Floridaâs Brevard Public Schools received an in-school suspension. He had ripped off another studentâs face mask and blown into a peerâs face. That same day, six other students across the district were written up for not wearing their masks correctly (including one who also faked using hand sanitizer), while an elementary school student was assigned three days of âprivate diningâ for sharing food in violation of safety guidelines. Meanwhile, an e-learning student got in trouble for filming another student during class wit...