BESE unanimously approves a process that will be used to review the state’s controversial Common Core academic standards. President Chas Roemer says the goal is to improve current standards where necessary instead of rewriting them. He says the key to this process is to make sure they have people who actually use Common Core participating…

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Roemer says the public will have the opportunity to review and provide input on every standard, and all related meetings will be open to all.

As we look ahead to the 2016 presidential election, how big of a roll will social media play? Both Hillary Clinton and Ted Cruz used Twitter to announce they were running. UL-Lafayette Political Science Professor Pearson Cross says you should expect social media to play a major role…

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He says President Obama showed the importance of social media in his 2008 campaign.

Oceana has filed a lawsuit against the federal government in an attempt to protect sea turtles from shrimp trawl nets. The suit alleges that the Endangered Species Act is being violated as 53,000 endangered sea turtles are allowed to be killed every year in the Southeast Shrimp Trawl Fishery off the Louisiana coast. Oceana Marine Scientist Amanda Keledjian…

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A turtle excluder device allows a captured sea turtle to escape when they are caught in a fisherman’s net.