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St. Tammany Parish Public Schools (STPPS) is a public school district serving the children of St. Tammany Parish, located along the Northshore banks of Lake Pontchartrain in southeast Louisiana, United States.
United States: District information; Type: Public (government funded) Motto: Strength. Tradition. Excellence. Grades: K-12: President: Britt Latiolais: Vice-president
Mandeville is a city in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, United States.As of the 2020 United States census, [2] its population was 13,192. Mandeville is located on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain, south of Interstate 12.
Jackson Parish School Board is a school district headquartered in Jonesboro, Louisiana, United States.The district serves Jackson Parish.. In the 2012–2013 school year, Jackson Parish public schools had the fifth-highest rate of improvement statewide in the annual end-of-course examinations administered in Algebra I and English II.
Ouachita Parish was the home to many succeeding Native American groups in the thousands of years before Europeans colonized the area. Peoples of the Marksville culture, Troyville culture, Coles Creek culture and Plaquemine culture built villages and earthwork mound sites throughout the area.
The West Carroll Parish Library in Oak Grove Historic Fiske Theatre in Oak Grove has served West Carroll Parish since 1928. First Baptist Church in Oak Grove is one of the larger congregations in West Carroll Parish, located across from Oak Grove City Hall; pastor Randy J. Messer (since 1993)
The parish was created out of lands formerly belonging to St. Landry Parish in 1910. [3] The majority of the area was originally settled by French Canadian colonists and former colonial marines (coureurs de bois) from such outposts as Fort Toulouse and Fort Kaskaskia and later included 19th-century French-speaking soldiers and immigrant families.
In 2011, graduating senior Damon Fowler objected to prayer at the Bastrop High School graduation exercises, claiming a looming violation of the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. [1]