EPSB enters agreement with ESPO; resource officer hired

During the Evangeline Parish School Board’s meeting last Wednesday, the board approved entering into an agreement with the Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s Office to provide a School Resource Officer for Evangeline Central School this school year.
Having the officer on campus at all times is a part of the new ECAP program being implemented at ECS.
After the board approved entering into this agreement with the EPSO, Superintendent of Schools Darwan Lazard introduced Tony Vidrine as the ECS’s new Resource Officer.
Vidrine, who has worked for the sheriff’s office for the last five year, also has 25 years of experience with the Federal Bureau of Prisons and has a Bachelor Degree in Criminal Justice.
The ECAP program for ECS has been modeled after the program used in at an Alexandria school, which Lazard intends to visit along with Vidrine and other representatives from the EPSO.
In reference to the new school program, Lazard said, “This is going to be a better program for Central than we had before.”
During the meeting Lazard also announced that former Vidrine Elementary Principal Cheryl Tezeno will be moving to the central office to fill the new position of Middle School Supervisor.
It was also announced at the meeting that former Pine Prairie High School Principal Anita West will fill the principal position that Tezeno left vacant at VE.
During the Superintendent’s closing comments, he reminded everyone that the first day back to school for personnel is August 8th, while the students return on August 10th.
Lazard also shared that there will be a new school year launch for all district employees on August 8th at Ville Platte High.
There will be buses sent to pick up employees and transport them to VPHS for the event.
Due to space issues, one group of employees will attend this event at 8:00 a.m. and then at 10:30 a.m. it will be the second group of employees’ turn to celebrate the launch of the 2017-18 school year.