The Board of Elementary and Secondary Education has started the process of finding a new Superintendent of Education to replace John White, who is stepping down. BESE member Holly Boffy says White overhauled the ways schools and teachers are graded in Louisiana, and the new Superintendent will be judged by that new criteria.
White’s resignation is effective March 11th
President Donald Trump gave the national champion LSU football team a special treat during its visit to the White House today. The president says this LSU team will be remembered as one of the greatest in college football history. He says the Tigers beat seven teams ranked in the top ten and they are led by a great man, Coach Ed Orgeron…
Baton Rouge welcomes the over 6,500 runners and their families for the 9th annual Louisiana Marathon. Kevin Barnhart has the story.
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59-year-old Myrna Thomas Quarles is set to serve 71 months in federal prison for stealing over million dollars by defrauding a federal summer lunch program for hungry children who are out of school. The case is linked to a fraudulent company Quarles set up in 2014 and 2015 that handed out some food to kids, but significantly overstated the amount of work it did to overbill the feds.