Concerned about the hurricane season? The Fortified Grant Program, which provides grants to homeowners to reinforce their roofs against bad storms, has received $30-million in funding…and could start taking applications soon…:

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Governor Edwards will leave tomorrow an economic development mission in France and Belgium. He’ll also attend the Paris Air Show on the trip and meet with aerospace industries. In Belgium the topics will be expanding Louisiana’s health sciences industry.

High school seniors who fail the LEAP tests will now have a graduation appeals process; recently approved the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. BESE President Dr. Holly Boffy says appeals will be administered at the local school level…:

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She says about 4-percent of seniors score too low on the LEAP, and this process could reduce dropouts and increase the number getting a diploma.

Clemency requests have been filed for fifty-one of the state’s fifty-seven death row inmates; asking Governor Edwards to commute their death sentences to life in prison. Mr. Edwards says he will consider each one, after they’ve passed muster with the Board of Pardons…:

CUT 11(12)      “…judgment.”

Edwards has said before he favors ending death penalties in Louisiana.