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• The board approved the superintendent’s recommendation to add boys and girls soccer as one of the sports offered at PK-8 and middle schools through the hub system. With this passage, the following sports will be offered at hub schools: football, volleyball, basketball, softball, baseball, soccer, and cheerleading.

FIRST READING AUTHORED BY MR. MORGAN

• Move that the Jefferson Parish School Board expand the program and curriculum at Ruppel Academy Studies to include graded Pre-Kindergarten through 8th grade and include a French Immersion curriculum. This expansion and curriculum shall be open to all Jefferson Parish Students. French Immersion candidates for admission shall be given special admission consideration as determined by the Superintendent and approved by the Board.

FIRST READING AUTHORED BY MR. NORTH

• Move that Henry Ford Middle School be renamed Emmett Gilbert School of Excellence at Ford.