BESE committee debates whether Lycée Français students should have French profiency as a condition of admission

By Sarah Gamard

The Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) School Innovation and Turnaround Committee Tuesday took a step toward tightening prerequisites for a French immersion school in New Orleans.

The school, Lycée Français de la Nouvelle-Orléans, wants to require students have a certain level of proficiency in French before admitting them to its French immersion program where classes are taught in French instead of English.

Read the story in bestofneworleans.com/Gambit