The 2021 regular Legislative session ended last night. Governor John Bel Edwards says the nine-week session resulted in a historic increase in funding for education, both for K-through-12 and higher ed, including raises for professors and an 800-dollar K-12 teacher pay raise.
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In the final hour of the session, lawmakers passed a bill that would end the enhanced 300-dollar federal jobless benefit unemployed individuals are receiving. The legislation would also raise the state’s unemployment benefits by 28-dollars a week starting next year. Abita Springs Representative Larry Frieman says he initially opposed higher state benefits, but the business lobby accepts this compromise…
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Governor Edwards calls the legislation a good compromise as well.

LSU Health Shreveport’s work during the pandemic with genetic sequencing receives national recognition and the school is receiving a Rockefeller grant. Brooke Thorington explains.
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