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September 15 - Rebuilding Update
We’re coming to our families again today with another update on Calcasieu Parish School Board’s educational plans. As we’ve mentioned before, we are so eager to have our official first day of the 20-21 school year with all of our faculty, staff, and students. We have prepared for that day since March 13, and the excitement will be even greater when that time finally comes.
We are still moving forward with educational plans for our faculty, staff and students. We are still in the process of assessing the needs and situations of our employees as we work to finalize plan details. Employees, please remember to check your email for more information if you have not done so already.
As power begins to be restored across our parish, some of our schools will be reopening sooner than others and sooner than the 24 days we were out for Hurricane Rita. This will occur where minimal campus damage was sustained. Some of those schools may be reopening as soon as next week, but we will certainly keep families posted on that information as it is finalized. We plan to bring back our employees to those sites first for several days before opening the doors for students. If your student’s campus does reopen for face-to-face instruction, but you would like for your student to participate instead in virtual learning, we will still have that option available for families.
For campuses that are not ready to physically reopen, we still plan to begin offering virtual instruction to all CPSB students as early as September 28. This educational offering will be for all students through a program called Odysseyware and will be optional. Even though power may be restored by then in most of the parish, we know that device and/or internet issues will still be present. We, at CPSB, are not immune to those same issues that many of you are facing. Our districtwide network remains down at this time due to equipment damage sustained by our provider, therefore we will not be able to provide devices and/or internet for students for the time being. While this situation is not ideal for families or our district, the offering of some educational option is a step in the right direction as we try very hard to return to some sort of normalcy here in Southwest Louisiana.
If you have not completed the enrollment survey for your student(s), please do so here as soon as possible. This survey will remain open until September 20 and provides the district with important information about our families as we continue finalizing educational plans. If you have specific questions about these plans, please send an email to virtual@cpsb.org.
We thank you for continued patience and understanding through these challenging times. The Southwest Louisiana community may have sustained a devastating blow with the landfall of Hurricane Laura, but we are resilient. This will make our families stronger, our district stronger, and our community stronger. Thank you, Calcasieu, for sticking with us as we continue Rebuilding Foundations for the Future.
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