School for the Deaf staff leaving

• By SONIA SMITH
• Published: Oct 7, 2008 - UPDATED: 6:05 p.m.

• Print
• Email
• Save
• Reprints
• Twitter
• Share

• Del.icio.us
• Digg
• Facebook
• Reddit
• 

Two state employees with oversight of the Louisiana School for the Deaf will be leaving Friday -- one retiring and one resigning -- after state Superintendent of Education Paul Pastorek announced today the school will close temporarily to give administrators time to implement measures to ensure students safety.

Pastorek said the school, located in Baton Rouge, will close for “days, not months.” He said students residing at the school will be sent home on Wednesday.

Kenneth David, the school’s interim director who has worked at the school since 1978, will be retiring effective Friday, said Rene Greer, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Education.

Virginia Beridon, the interim director of the state’s Special School District that oversees the Louisiana School for the Deaf and two other special schools, is resigning effective Friday, Greer said.

The superintendent’s decision to temporarily close the school came less than two weeks after an alleged sexual attack on a elementary-aged girl on bus hired by the school.

Pastorek also made the decision after receiving a report from two experts hired to evaluate the way the school is being run.

 

---

 

School for the Deaf temporarily closing
2:40 p.m.

The Louisiana School for the Deaf will close temporarily to give administrators time to implement measures to ensure students safety, state Superintendent of Education Paul Pastorek announced Tuesday.

Pastorek said the school would close for “days, not months.” He said students residing at the school will be sent home on Wednesday.

The superintendent’s decision to temporarily close the school came less than two weeks after an alleged sexual attack on a elementary-aged girl on bus hired by the school.