Ville Platte Mayor, Jennifer Vidrine, held a School Community Meeting last night in the MLK Center regarding possible actions by the Evangeline Parish School Board regarding The School of Choice Plan.  If the proposed changes are voted in by the School Board at their bi-monthly meeting tomorrow night, the School board could plan to re-assign Ville Platte students attending Chicot and Pine Prairie Schools.  In attendance last night were School Board Members, Nancy Hamlin, Georgiana Wilson, Wayne Dardeau, Ellis Guillory and Superintendent of Schools, Toni Hamlin.  KVPI met with the Mayor and she explained that she wanted to hear from parents and other concerned citizens and that is why she called the meeting.  She was concerned that the School Board would vote on the matter during Wednesday’s meeting without hearing from members of the community.  The Mayor urges everyone who would like more information or to speak on the matter, please come to the School Board meeting tomorrow night at 6:00 p.m. in the School Board Media Center. 

KVPI reached out to Superintendent Hamlin and she stated she "was Invited last night to the meeting was because of what is called the “Sub Zone” which is comprised of Hickory to West Main and Alton Locks and David on the West Side.  Those students have been zoned for Pine Prairie High School since 2004.  We have reached a point now where we are at capacity.  We checked to see which schools who was at capacity, who is over-capacity and I showed the information at the meeting last night.  My role in that was to provide the information to them but it is the school board who will decide the capacity at various schools in the area."