LA School For the Deaf to reopen
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The Louisiana School For the Deaf will reopen Wednesday instead of Monday as previously planned.
The state Department of Education closed the school Oct. 8 after an alleged student-on-student rape and a previous string of incidents involving sexual misconduct between students and adults.
State Superintendent of Education Paul Pastorek publicly announced the change in the re-opening date in a news release sent out this morning.
In another change, the school will reopen for all students, both day students and those residing at the school. Originally the state was planning to bring only day students back.
The news release didn’t offer specific reasons for the two-day delay in reopening.
Pastorek ordered the school closed after reports that a 16-year-old male student sexually assaulted a 6-year-old girl on a bus chartered by the school. The male student was arrested on a count of aggravated rape in Franklin Parish on Oct. 17.
Before that incident, five people — three of them current or former employees of the school — were arrested between November 2007 and April for alleged sexual misconduct with juvenile students.
During the school’s closure, state officials have been providing limited home service for students. The state suspended that service Tuesday to allow the staff of the School for the Deaf to prepare for reopening, according to the news release.
The state Department of Education closed the school Oct. 8 after an alleged student-on-student rape and a previous string of incidents involving sexual misconduct between students and adults.
State Superintendent of Education Paul Pastorek publicly announced the change in the re-opening date in a news release sent out this morning.
In another change, the school will reopen for all students, both day students and those residing at the school. Originally the state was planning to bring only day students back.
The news release didn’t offer specific reasons for the two-day delay in reopening.
Pastorek ordered the school closed after reports that a 16-year-old male student sexually assaulted a 6-year-old girl on a bus chartered by the school. The male student was arrested on a count of aggravated rape in Franklin Parish on Oct. 17.
Before that incident, five people — three of them current or former employees of the school — were arrested between November 2007 and April for alleged sexual misconduct with juvenile students.
During the school’s closure, state officials have been providing limited home service for students. The state suspended that service Tuesday to allow the staff of the School for the Deaf to prepare for reopening, according to the news release.
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