Central City News

In an exclusive interview with the Central Wildcat Tuesday afternoon, Board of Elemen- tary and Secondary Education chairman Chas Roemer said the board will not allow the Central Community School System to be penalized because a large number of students have opted out of PARCC tests being administered this week.     Roemer said the board […]

Essays in the 2015 DEMCO Rural Electric Youth Tour Essay Contest were submitted from 12 schools from the seven-parish DEMCO service area.  Then 12 finalists were chosen to present their essays before a panel of judges March 3 at White Oak Plantation. Of the 12 finalists, six were from Central High! Grant Falcon, Madison Hadden, […]

Here is an update on some of the issues facing the Central Community School System: •    Future of Common Core — With Gov. Jindal’s proposals on the table to repeal Common Core and replace it with Louisiana-based standards and testing, the future of Common Core is up in the air.  We really won’t know what […]

Opposition to Common Core has been simmering for the past year in Central, but it came to a head over the past week, when 153 students chose to opt out of PARCC tests, which are administered as part of Common Core. Three prominent Central citizens were among parents who spoke out — Central Mayor Pro-Tem […]

On Wednesday, Gov. Jindal announced a plan “to remove Common Core from Louisiana and replace it with high-quality Louisiana standards while ensuring that Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) contracts, Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs), and Cooperative Endeavor Agreements (CEAs) do not hand control of Louisiana schools to third-party entities or the federal government.” The […]

Nearly 2,000 students at Central Middle and Central Immediate schools are completing five days of tests offered as part of Common Core national standards.  The tests, which last 90 minutes each day, are known as PARCC, short for Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers. The Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, […]

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Ross Little, Jr., Louisiana’s Republican National  Committeeman announced today that the LAGOP adopted a resolution calling for the Repeal of Common Core.  The resolution was adopted overwhelmingly on Saturday, Feb. 21, at the first State Republican meeting of 2015. The Resolution was sponsored by Little of Lafayette and co-sponsored by State Rep. Lenar Whitney of […]

The most powerful political changes generally come from the bottom up.  While most of the political establishment has been asleep, including the media, the Louisiana electorate has been changing, as more than 700,000 have shunned the Republicans and Democrats and registered to vote as Independents, No Party or Other.  Today, there are almost as many […]

The common wisdom among the “political class” is that Louisiana is a solidly Red State that can be expected to stay in the Republican colum for a long time to come. After all, every statewide elected official is a Republican, and so are all but one member of the Louisiana Congressional delegation. A majority of […]