Jefferson Parish district reclaims old school facility

The Jefferson Parish (La.) School Board plans to convert the old Benjamin Banneker Elementary School in River Ridge into an alternative school for students with severe discipline problems. The board has accepted the Banneker site back from the Jefferson Parish Council, which until recently used the building to house a Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office substation and training academy. Banneker -- once an elementary school for special education students -- has not been used as a school since the late 1970s.

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