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Allen Parish School Board is a school district headquartered in Oberlin in Allen Parish in southwestern Louisiana, United States. From 1960 to 1969, Dorothy Sue Hill, the state representative for Allen, Beauregard , and Calcasieu parishes, taught home economics for Allen Parish schools.
Elizabeth is a village in Allen Parish, Louisiana, United States with population of 417 in the 2020 census. It was a town and had population of 532 at the 2010 census . [ 2 ]
Allen was a strongly Democratic parish in Presidential and Congressional elections; the last Republican to win a majority in the parish before 2000 was Richard Nixon in 1972. Starting in 2000 , when George W. Bush narrowly won the parish, Allen has become a Republican stronghold; John McCain won nearly two-thirds of the parish's vote in 2008 .
Oberlin got its own segregated high school in 1963 when the Oberlin Colored School was expanded by the Allen Parish School Board. The new school was named after Charles Phillip Adams, founding president of the Colored Industrial and Agricultural School, which later became Grambling State University. [7] The school closed in 1970 after Allen ...
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By the 1920s, a "training school" for Black students had been established by the Allen Parish School Board at the church building and named the Morehead School, after a prominent local Black family. Solomon Cole, who had attended the Tuskegee Institute and Southern University was named principal. The Morehead School closed in 1938. [3]
The Lafayette Parish School Board voted 5-3 to allow the superintendent and the board president to purchase 301 and 307 Rue Beauregard, which are next to the district’s new office at 202 Rue ...
Elizabeth Hey, 36, is a business coach who is running for the Beaufort County School Board. Her priorities include “transparency, parental rights, and issues directly impacting the well-being of ...