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While most students and parents know the exact date and time the 2015-16 school year ends, we all need to be aware of when youngsters will be playing outside so we can be more careful driving around town.

Calcasieu Parish schools dismiss for the summer on May 20th. I found several interesting summer camps right here in the Lake area.

Los Angeles School Superintendent Ramon Cortines drew a lot of fire from the news media yesterday about his decision to close schools after a threat was made on schools in the greater Los Angeles area.

Is it time?  Are we there yet?  How much longer?  No, we're not talking about a road trip. We're talking about BACK TO SCHOOL!! The time is now, parents! Are you ready? School supplies bought? Lunches made? Backpacks packed? Here's a shout out to all of the teachers, bus drivers, administrators, and support staff who teach and love our children...

School uniform shopping can take a serious toll on a parent's wallet. However, searching through the inventory at local thrift stores operated by charitable organizations for the shirts, shorts, pants or skirts that someone else's child may have outgrown, but is still perfectly useable, could make the pain much more tolerable...

Well here we go again. Here's another embarrassing factoid from the state of Louisiana. Thank God Arkansas is there looking even worse (if that's possible.)

I remember when the new Moss Bluff Elementary School opened because my son started his education there. He was also there the first year the new Moss Bluff Middle School opened. Now those schools have become overcrowded due to the area's growth. Will Moss Bluff residents agree to fund a new elementary school?

Facing vegetable and fruit counts, caloric guidelines and other federal regulations makes operating school lunchrooms very challenging. This is all a result of the Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act that was passed in 2010. We were wondering if your kids are still eating the school provided lunches?

It's Homecoming Week at St. Louis this week, and the teachers and staff are in a pretty good mood, if you judge by this video.

It seems that Common Core is going to happen whether if we want it or not. The Calcasieu parish School board is launching a web site to help students with Common Core homework.

McNeese classes start next week and there will be hundreds of new freshmen joining the upperclassmen on the campus.  So here are a few "blending-in" tips for those new students.

School starts this morning, so what's a better way to get up and get going than with some classic Schoolhouse Rock! Put on your engineer's hat and sing along with "Conjunction Junction."