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Superintendent LaMont Cole of East Baton Rouge Parish Schools says a closed campus could be turned into a place for new teachers to live.
Cole proposed an idea to repurpose Westminster Elementary into affordable housing for new educators, complete with on-site childcare.
He says this reuse of otherwise idle district property could also work as a strategy to recruit and retain teachers.
The idea is still in the early stages of development.
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