In one week, Louisiana public school students will begin taking the LEAP, iLEAP and GEE standardized tests. Testing begins Monday, March 10, and the Louisiana Department of Education has opened a online help center and tutoring hotline (877-453-2721) that will run through this Friday, March 7. The hotline's open from 3 until 7 p.m. Monday through Friday, and sample questions are available online. You can also download practice tests.
Cox is also offering free video tutorials through Cox OnDemands. LEAP 21: Making the Grade, is a joint effort between LPB and the Louisiana State Department of Education and helps students prepare for the math and language arts sections of the LEAP test, with 15 segments each for 4th and 8th graders based the state's tutoring guide. In order to access the tutorials, Cox Digital subscribers should tune their TVs to Cox Channel 1, select "FreeZone," select "LEAP," and then make the appropriate tutorial selection.
David Calhoun and Elizabeth “EB” Brooks are the first two employees of Lafayette Central Park Inc., the nonprofit charged with turning Lafayette Consolidated Government’s 100-acre Johnston Street Horse Farm property into a passive public park. Calhoun was named executive director, and Brooks is director of planning and design.
At Thursday's State of the Economy luncheon, LEDA President and CEO Gregg Gothreaux said PXP has already quietly hired 180 people for its Broussard expansion.
There will soon be a whole lot of shakin’ going on at Benny’s Sportshack Supplement Depot, a new concept by Opelousas native Benny Nele. Located at 2002 Johnston St., the supplement shop, smoothie bar and café, featuring hot off the press paninis and wraps, plans to open in late May.
This year’s Cool Town issue is all about people who are not native to South Louisiana but made a conscious decision to be here, to be among us, to participate in our culture and contribute to it.
A shelved ordinance transferring $200,000 from a northside drainage project to a south Lafayette development may not break any laws, but it stinks to high heaven.
An effort to restore a shuttered dancehall and document other vacant or razed honky-tonks could serve as a model for saving an endangered species of entertainment.
Lafayette’s gene pool has been host to a long line of eccentric characters who have blurred the lines between crazy, genius, disturbed and curiously entertaining.
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