Citizens for an Equal Education (CEE) is being formed with only two goals in mind.

1. Immediately reduce overcrowding of classrooms

2. Push for the construction of a new school in our community

The students of Grand Caillou community have some of the lowest standardized test scores in the parish. A chief contributor to this situation is constant disruption in their education by the affects of school flooding. During the crisis, our students are bussed to surrounding area schools and subjected to class sizes that are doubled. In some cases, there are as many as 50 students in a classroom. These major disruptions come at the foundational time of our children’s education. No other students in our parish are subjected to such adverse educational conditions. The construction of a new school can remedy this situation and provide the same opportunity for a quality public education as all of the other children in our parish.

If you would like to volunteer to be part of the organizational committee for this community action group, contact us at

Board Meeting Results

Our meeting with the school board went very well. Our message was well received. While the board members were sympathetic to our cause, no resolution on their part was offered. We will continue to meet with the board to insure that our children’s educational needs are being met and to reassure them that we want to work in a cooperative spirit and that we are not going away.

Next Step

We will continue meeting with the board at committee meetings and board meetings. We will also begin contacting members of the business community to gain support for action in the near future. We will also contact local, state, and federal legislators to inform them of the plight of our children and gain support from our other elected officials. If you have any personal contact with any of these elected officials or local businessmen, please contact us so that we can arrange a personal meeting.

Thank You!!

The citizens of Grand Caillou want to take this opportunity to publicly thank Principal Arthur Joffrion and the faculty and staff, students and parents, of Acadian Elementary for volunteering to share their facility with our children and faculty. They will never know the depth of our gratitude for showing such compassion, support, and welcome that our children, faculty and staff have experienced during a very traumatic and stressful time in their lives. It is not the ideal educational experience for them as well as us. But, it is an exemplary example of an extended community pulling together to make the best of a bad situation.

Meetings

The holidays are coming up and some of the schedules for meeting will be changed. At this time, we do not have any confirmed meeting dates. Check back at this web page in the next couple of days and there will be meeting updates posted.