Jefferson News

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Legislation that would shift the expiring 3 percent state excise tax on vehicle rentals to local government was tweaked in a House committee Tuesday and given unanimous approval.

The Jefferson Parish School Board's employee relations committee will meet this morning to discuss how it will proceed with upcoming contract negotiations with the Jefferson Federation of Teachers.

A Senate committee rewrote a House bill Monday to give Jefferson and Orleans parishes a larger share of the expiring 3 percent vehicle rental tax with the money going to arts, recreation and streets programs.

Knowing that stress from the upheaval of widespread changes can cause an initial dip in achievement before improvements start to show, Superintendent James Meza said he braced himself for the test results from his first year of reforming Jefferson Parish public schools .

Today is the end of the 2011-12 term for elementary school students in the Jefferson Parish public system .

Several local schools in the metro area were ranked in the top 1,000 public high schools in the nation.

JEFFERSON, La. -- Jefferson Parish deputies are investigating a midday shooting in the Shrewsbury area, with reports of a man shot to the head in that area.

In the minds of six of the Jefferson Parish School Board's nine members, belonging to the state chapter of school boards is a waste of time and money.

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Jefferson Community School , the oldest charter school in Louisiana, will be reinvented to serve all types of at-risk students under a charter amendment approved by the Jefferson Parish School Board .

JEFFERSON, La. - A school bus carrying about three dozen children was rear-ended by a pickup truck Thursday afternoon, according to the State Police.

JEFFERSON, La. - The Huey P. Long Bridge will be totally closed for the weekend beginning just before midnight on Friday night and continuing until early Monday morning.

In what could be its most monumental decision in decades, the Jefferson Parish School Board on Wednesday will consider shuttering seven of its 88 schools after the current academic year.

Hancock, MS ; Jefferson, LA ; Lafourche, LA ; Orleans, LA ; Pearl River, MS ; Plaquemines, LA ; Saint Bernard, LA ; Saint Charles, LA ; Saint James, LA ; Saint John the Baptist, LA ; Saint Tammany, LA ; Terrebonne, LA ; Washington, LA Two school buses were involved in an accident on I-10 westbound at Veterans Boulevard Friday afternoon shortly ... (more)

Just about everyone agrees on the importance of early childhood education, especially for at-risk children.

More than 300 students have applied for admission to the Jefferson Parish public school system's first non-alternative charter school .

Over the years, there have been many reasons for Carol and Joey Lange of Metairie to rethink the decision to send their three kids to private school.

The Senate voted 23-1 Thursday for a measure that would dedicate the entire 3 percent state excise tax on vehicle rentals for use by Orleans and Jefferson parishes, if voters approve.

There's construction work going on in the rear of the largely vacant lot just past Maine Street on Jefferson Highway, but it isn't a makeover of the long-dormant Jefferson Plaza Shopping Center.