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KAPLAN — The Louisiana Department of Education announced its 2024 Principal of the Year semifinalists.
These principals represent schools and systems across the state.
Vermilion Parish is proud to announce that it has one of the 57 principals on the list. Sonya Louviere, the principal of Rene Rost Middle School, made the list.
She has been the principal at Rene Rost Middle for five years and has no plans to leave the school soon.

In October, the Vermilion Parish School Board ramped security by placing metal detectors in all schools. Five months later, the metal detectors are still being used today.
At 99 percent of the schools, the metal detectors are randomly used three days a week. In other words, the school administration decides when students have to walk through the metal detectors.
Some schools can use metal detectors before entering or walking out of the classroom.

Homeowners of Vermilion Parish can relate to the problems of the Vermilion Parish School Board when finding insurance for the school district’s buildings.
The school district hired the company, Arthur Gallagher, to find companies to ensure the school district’s vehicles, like buses and trucks, along with buildings and schools.
Getting quotes for vehicles and flood insurance was the easy part, said Marrian Laughlin of Arthur Gallagher. However, finding an insurance company to insure the school district’s buildings takes more work.