Charles Lussier is a Staff Writer at various publications, including Yahoo Sports Canada, Bowling Green Daily News, and NOLA.com. He focuses on themes such as education management, legal affairs, and energy, often exploring topics related to Louisiana, Baton Rouge, and the impacts of the coronavirus on academia and taxes. His work has been featured in notable outlets like The Advocate and Government Technology.
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By: Charles Lussier
HES Facilities Management of Knoxville has been asking the East Baton Rouge Parish school system for another $960,000, calling it a 4% cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, so it can further boost pay for its workers and direct more money to subcontractors to do the same for their employees.
By: Charles Lussier
The idea of hiring First Student grows out of the East Baton Rouge Parish school system's struggle to hire enough drivers to get kids to and from school each day. Supt. LaMont Cole says he's still working on ways to fix problems in-house and avoid hiring First Student at all.
By: Charles Lussier
Voters in April 2018 agreed to spend up to $35 million to fix up McKinley High. The project sparked heated debate in the leadup to that election, pitting school leaders who proposed partial renovations and an expansion of the school as opposed to rebuilding the entire school, which was constructed in 1961.
By: Charles Lussier
In a new report, the Baton Rouge Area Foundation tries to makes sense of the local education landscape in Baton Rouge of the complexities of the East Baton Rouge Parish school system.
By: Charles Lussier
New $15 million federal grant aims to combat shortage of qualified Montessori educators in Louisiana. New training center is based in Tangipahoa Parish. It will also train Montessori teachers in East Baton Rouge and Rapides parishes.
By: Charles Lussier
Despite heavy spending in fiscal year 2023-24, in part to deal with a transportation crisis and the expiration of COVID cash, the East Baton Rouge Parish school system seems to have weathered the financial storm and is sailing into calmer waters.
By: Charles Lussier
East Baton Rouge Parish Schools Superintendent LaMont Cole says he wants to see how bus service is for the first week of the spring semester before deciding whether to go through with plans to hire First Student to help cover a few vacant routes.
By: Charles Lussier
President Carla Powell-Lewis and Vice President Patrick Martin V have both served a year in their current roles and both have shown interest in staying in leadership. But neither are speaking publicly about their plans for 2025.
By: Charles Lussier
The Texas-based IDEA network came into Louisiana with great fanfare as a “proven operator," but is now withdrawing from the state.
By: Charles Lussier
Shashonnie Steward and Mike Gaudet replace Carla Powell-Lewis and Patrick Martin, who served a year as board president and vice president., respectively. Their selection Thursday is a continuation of the board’s practice of having mixed racial leadership — Steward is Black and Gaudet is White.
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