Students preparing for back to school received advice, supplies and inspiration Saturday during the back to school community rally sponsored by the Solomon Temple Baptist Church. The rally’s purpose was to motivate students to focus on achievement in the new…
Monroe School Board member Daryll Berry is excited about the new Barbara T. Bonner Music Arts Center set to open in the fall. The $1.6 million dollar facility will be the home for the choir, piano and orchestral training of…
Barkdull Faulk Elementary has a new principal. This week, Superintendent Brent Vidrine placed Cleveland Mouton III, a graduate of ULM and member of Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, in the principal position. He replaces Robert Johnson, who was moved to head…
The Wossman High School Class of 1973 is pleased to announce the 2017 recipients of the WHS C’73 annual academic scholarship: Miss Sally Causey, a 2017 graduate of Wossman High School; and Miss De’Eddria Mone’ Toliver, a 2017 graduate of…
Unruly students can still be paddled in Louisiana public schools, but a new law now excludes disabled students, and students with special 504 accommodations. The new law Act 266 of the Louisiana Legislature makes it a crime for schools in…
Board votes to replace Abraham Lincoln name on school with Roy Shelling, Sr. On Tuesday morning, the Monroe City School Board voted 4-0 to rename Lincoln Elementary School in honor of the late Roy Neal Shelling, Sr. The school, which…
Attorneys say report low rating school was based on hearsay, assumptions with no facts; Excellence is district #2 Middle School On orders from a federal court, the Monroe City School Board took a second look at its decision to close its…
