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67 Search Results Found For: "jefferson school"

  • So Much Happened In This Week’s School Board Meetings. Let Us Catch You Up.

    It’s been a busy week for the Orleans Parish School Board. During its last two meetings of the year, members rejected tax exemptions for the Folger’s Coffee Company, approved new accountability me
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  • BGR throws support behind Jefferson Parish Inspector General millage renewal

    The Jefferson Parish Inspector General’s property tax renewal, which is on the ballot Nov. 3, got the thumbs up from an independent nonprofit Tuesday, when the Bureau of Governmental Research an
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  • Discovery Schools CEO honored for innovation, and other metro-area school news

    DISCOVERY SCHOOLS: Patty Glaser, the CEO of Discovery Schools, has been honored with an Excellence in Government Innovation Award from the Bureau of Governmental Research. Glaser was recognized for he
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  • Former judge and retired postal worker vie for Jefferson Parish Council District 1 seat

    The race to replace Ricky Templet in the Jefferson Parish Council’s District 1 seat is between two candidates who would be new to parish government, though only one could be considered a politic
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  • Jefferson Parish residents vote to give teachers pay raises

    JEFFERSON PARISH, La. —Residents of Jefferson Parish voted to adopt a pay raise for teachers in the parish. A pay raise for all teachers at Jefferson Parish schools passed with nearly 80% of the vot
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  • Jefferson Parish backs tax for teacher pay raises

    With a new School Board, new superintendent and new goal to improve academic performance from a C grade to an A in five years, Jefferson Parish voters agreed Saturday (May 4) to raise property taxe
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  • Jefferson Parish voters overwhelmingly approve tax raise to pay teachers more

    Jefferson Parish voters on Saturday resoundingly approved a new 7.9-mill, 10-year property tax to fund raises for teachers and other employees. The proposal from the Jefferson Parish School Board garn
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  • New Orleans area voters to decide on tax issues in Orleans, Jefferson and St. Tammany on Saturday

    Voters in much of the New Orleans area will head to the polls Saturday to consider mainly requests involving taxes, as a parks and recreation tax in Orleans Parish, a teacher pay tax in Jefferson Pari
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  • Tax for teacher raises addresses Jefferson Parish’s ‘Achilles heel’

    Lyndsey Jackson teaches deaf children ages 3 to 5 how to communicate, to treat one another with respect and to learn, so that they’ll be ready for kindergarten. She spends part of the day on the cla
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  • Our Views: Voters should back new Jefferson Parish teacher pay plan — a vital step forward

    Maybe it’s poor timing, but the leadership of Jefferson Parish has an important tax proposal for teacher pay on the ballot just as the Legislature is contemplating a $1,000 raise for teachers from t
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