Education


Nearly closed, Park Elementary now to be rebuilt with a futuristic design

News Source: The Advocate

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After nearly closing Park Elementary a year ago, the East Baton Rouge School Board is moving forward with a tear-down and rebuild employing a design for a “21st century school.”

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Baton Rouge’s Woman’s Hospital Reaches Deal to Open Charter School on its Campus

News Source: Baton Rouge Business Report

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BASIS, one of the most academically demanding charter programs in the nation, has reached an agreement with Woman’s Hospital to open a K-6 charter school on nearly 10 acres of hospital–owned property across Stumberg Lane from the hospital campus.

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Baton Rouge Water Campus, Developing Baton Rouge

Water Campus building gets ‘topped off’

News Source: Baton Rouge Business Report

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Commercial Properties Realty Trust, which is developing the 27.6-acre Water Campus for the Baton Rouge Area Foundation, will hold a “topping off” ceremony at the campus later this afternoon, at which dignitaries will place the last beam atop The Water Institute of the Gulf’s new riverfront headquarters.

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Developing Baton Rouge

Baton Rouge Community College’s new auto training center promises to help fill a local shortage of skilled technicians

News Source: Baton Rouge Business Report

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Gerry Lane Enterprises President Eric Lane can’t find enough certified auto repair technicians to keep his four Baton Rouge area dealerships fully staffed. And he knows he’s not alone. “I don’t think there’s a service department in Baton Rouge who doesn’t need more techs,” Lane tells Business Report in a feature in the new issue.

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East Baton Rouge School Board gives initial OK to seek construction bids for career high school, information systems

News Source: The Advocate

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A long-planned $17 million career-focused high school moved closer to breaking ground Thursday as the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board gave tentative approval to seeking bids to construct the 34,000-square-foot structure in Melrose East.

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New Autism School Coming to Baton Rouge

News Source: Baton Rouge Business Report

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A new school specializing in educating children affected with autism spectrum disorders from preschool through age 20 will open in March at the site of the former Brighton Elementary School campus at 9150 Bereford Drive.

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Developing Baton Rouge

Southern University plans new alumni complex that could include retail, multifamily space

News Source: Baton Rouge Business Report

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The Southern University Alumni Federation is planning a new alumni complex on the south end of the campus in an effort to grow the association’s footprint and spur economic development in north Baton Rouge.

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Baton Rouge Water Campus, Developing Baton Rouge

Commercial Properties planning parking garage, new streets for Water Campus

News Source: Baton Rouge Business Report

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With two buildings complete and a third one currently under construction, Commercial Properties Realty Trust is moving forward with plans to develop infrastructure at the Water Campus. The firm has submitted a final development plan to the city-parish Planning Commission for the 27.6-acre campus that includes a three-story, 50-foot parking garage as well as three […]

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Years in the making, Baton Rouge’s newest museum will finally come to fruition this summer

News Source: Baton Rouge Business Report

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Rain delays might have slowed construction in 2016, but the much-anticipated Knock Knock Children’s Museum is expected to open doors on schedule in City Park sometime this summer. Quietly underway since 2010, the museum is the brainchild of a handful of community volunteers and education experts whose intent was to build a ground-up, best-in-class children’s […]

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Walls of Baton Rouge downtown library set to come tumbling down in October

News Source: The Advocate

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After years of often heated debate over whether to renovate the downtown River Center Branch Library or build anew, the walls of the building will finally be coming down this fall.

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