The state has been hit with another tornado outbreak. Rep. Jack McFarland says in Jackson Parish residents are dealing with the aftermath of what appears to be two different tornados.
Some roads are impassable due to fallen trees. McFarland says about 20,000 residents were without power after storms passed through last night. No serious injuries have been reported. Governor Edwards is scheduled to speak at the Jackson Parish Sheriff’s Office at 3PM.
Louisiana’s Community College system will offer a new two-year associate degree in cloud computing in partnership with Amazon Web Services. Delgado interim chancellor Doctor Will Wright says this will help students get tech-related jobs…
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The House approved a 30-billion dollar budget. It contains money to give public school teachers a 12-hundred dollar raise. There’s a concern the raise is actually a one-time bonus. But House Appropriations Chairman Cameron Henry says the pay raise will be permanent once the funding formula for public schools is approved…
The M-F-P is making its way through the legislative process. The spending plan does not contain the 39-million dollars in block grant funding that the governor and the state’s education board.