A 20-million dollar annual federal grant has been awarded to the state Department of Education to help struggling public schools. Assistant Education Superintendent Kunjan Narechania (Nari-Chawn-Ya) says qualifying schools with the best plans for progress will receive the funds…:
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There are currently 225 struggling schools in Louisiana which means they have a performance grade of D or F.

Shreveport Representative Thomas Carmody wasn’t able to pass legislation this year seeking to let the public vote before a military monument could be taken down, and now says he doesn’t plan to bring the bill back. He says there would be no point as statues are being taken down all over the South:
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Four Confederate monuments were removed in New Orleans last April and May.

Governor John Bel Edwards is slated to meet with new FEMA Administrator Brock Long today. Halen Doughty has more…:
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House Majority Whip Steve Scalise of Metairie is telling his colleagues that he will wait until his doctors give him the okay, before he returns to the Capitol. A spokesperson for the Republican lawmaker says Scalise was on a conference call with GOP legislators to discuss spending bills on Monday. Scalise was shot in June in the hip and is undergoing inpatient rehabilitation, after undergoing several surgeries.