The Public Affairs Research Council (PAR) releases its assessment of the 2023 legislative session. PAR President Steven Procopio says the end of the session got ugly with a last-minute budget cut of about $100-million from the Department of Health. He says no one understands the huge cut and it seems odd…
The Louisiana Department of Education has a dashboard on its website Louisiana-believes-dot-com that gives citizens an easier way to view K-through-12 academic progress. State Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley…
Cut 8 (10) “…local communities’”
The dashboard also provides a summary on how school systems have spent pandemic relief funds.
Louisiana has one of the costliest and most cumbersome expungement processes in the US, and it inspired legislation to remove application fees and improve communication between various agencies. New Orleans Senator Royce Duplessis says an individual who’s seeking an expungement is not a person who’s looking to commit another crime.
The revised process should be available in 18 months.
Shreveport Representative Thomas Pressly is concerned after the Legislature approved a construction budget that reduced funding for a new four-lane Jimmie Davis Bridge by 140-million dollars. Pressly says there’s enough funding available to start the five-year, 362 million dollar project, but lawmakers will have to address the rest of the funding next year…