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Students aren't the only ones excited that the summer break is here. Teachers at S.J. Montgomery in Lafayette took part in the latest internet craze "The Running Man Challenge."

The teachers at Johnston Hopkins Elementary in New Iberia celebrated the end of the school with their very own Running Man Challenge.

With nearly 2,000 employees including 135 bus drivers the school system will be fully functional.

The 9th and 10th grade educator was charged with 37 criminal counts by a grand jury.

Another sex scandal involving a teacher is reported in Bossier Parish. This time a substitute teacher is arrested on charges of producing and possessing child pornography.

A new report says Louisiana has the third-highest instances among the 50 states of inappropriate relationships between teachers and their students.

Two Destrehan High School teachers have been arrested for sexual misconduct after they allegedly had a threesome with the same male student.

Lafayette Parish School System Superintendent Dr. Pat Cooper liked the idea of giving teachers a $1,000 pay increase, but he said more needs to be done for support personnel as well.

The district started a three-day training seminar for the new hires Thursday.

New research shows that U.S. teachers are nowhere near as diverse as their students.

According to data compiled by the Lafayette Parish Association of Educators, a total of 343 teachers resigned between January 2012 and December 2013.

The study also showed that of the employees who have left the district in the past five years, 918 are teachers.

School Superintendent Brian Lejeune says the allegations stem from a situation that allegedly happened off campus, during summer break.

The Network for Transforming Education Preparation was created by the Council of Chief State School Officers.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The president of a teachers' union says his group will again ask a district judge to toss out a state law that makes it harder for public school teachers to earn and retain tenure. Steve Monaghan, president of the Louisiana Federation of Teachers, tells The Advocate the group's original lawsuit will be changed to include three new complaints aimed at derailing the measure..

Some school superintendents say part of the reason teachers are leaving, they believe, are because of classroom changes including the new teacher evaluation system.

I am afraid teachers of this caliber are slowly going the way of the dinosaur. It is we the people that are allowing this to happen and we should be very ashamed.

The COMPASS evaluations, a set of two one-hour observations of teachers, is incredibly unpopular among teachers and teachers unions, who say the process is flawed and unfair.

The superintendent says they had to try to find 25 substitutes.

We don't want those kids to stay in the regular classroom but we don't want them to be out on the streets.