While there’s progress, truancy continues to be a problem
Cut 2 (35) “…I’m Andrew Greenstein.”
A fourth-grade math teacher at Robinson Elementary School in Monroe has been arrested after he allegedly arranged to have sex with a 15-year-old at an undisclosed site. Authorities say they arrested Boris Braggs after he set up the meet up over the internet with an undercover officer that he thought was a teenage girl. State Police and the FBI were conducting an undercover operation focused on sex trafficking of minors.
U.S. News and World Report has recognized Northwestern State as one of the best public schools among regional universities in the South. Chief Marketing Officer Cole Young says Northwestern has long made a commitment to individual student attention – something large universities may not be equipped to do as easily.
Cut 14 (05) “…to student ratio.”
Young says the quality of students that Northwestern is bringing in has greatly improved in recent years.
Republican State Representative Mike Bayham from Saint Bernard Parish had the thrill of a lifetime as he met Pope Leo the 14th at the Vatican. Bayham says he gave the first American-born pontiff a copy of a state resolution congratulating him on becoming the head of the Catholic church…
Cut 3 (08) “…he appreciated it.”
Leo the 14’s grandparents on his mother’s side got married and lived in the New Orleans 7th Ward before moving to Chicago.