Louisiana Considered: Louisiana Educators Brace For New School Year During COVID-19 Case Surge, Tropical Storm Fred Approaches Gulf Coast

By Karl Lengel,

Aubry Procell

Published August 11, 2021 at 1:23 PM CDT

Associated Press Baton Rouge correspondent Melinda Deslatte tells us what she’s learned in her coverage of how Louisiana K-12 schools and university systems plan to start the 2021 - 2022 school year during the state’s worst surge in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations to date.
WWNO/WRKF education reporter Aubri Juhasz gives more details on how specific school districts plan to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 this fall. The delta variant of COVID-19 has been proven to affect children more frequently than the original virus.
Meteorologist Dan Holiday briefly discusses Tropical Storm Fred, which may bring storms to the Gulf Coast this weekend.

Louisiana Considered

Karl Lengel

Karl Lengel worked at New Orleans Public Radio for more than two decades before leaving the station in 2023.

Aubry Procell

Aubry is a reporter, producer and operations assistant in Baton Rouge.