President Trump has signed two orders moving forward with construction of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipelines. Jeff Palermo has more on what this means for Louisiana…:
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The Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education on Tuesday approved more than $1.5 million in grant awards for state universities and school systems to advance the shift to full-year residencies for all aspiring teachers. BESE says this is key to ensuring that new teachers enter the classroom ready on day one.

Republican state Representative Franklin Foil says he will try to bring a bill in the upcoming session to raise the TOPS GPA requirement to rein in costs. He says this proposal would make the program more of a merit-based scholarship, like it was intended to be…:
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The GPA requirement is currently a 2.5, but Foil says it should be increased to a 3.0 over the next three years.

Freshman 4th District U.S. Rep. Mike Johnson of Benton was named to both the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security and Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations. He says this puts him on the forefront of the lines when it comes to policy concerning building a wall on the southern US border, and what would work best…:
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He says continuing the fight against ISIS and other terrorist groups will be another key item on the agenda.