For the third straight year, the state’s average ACT composite score has fallen. Louisiana’s Class of 2020 composite score is 18.7 out of a possible 36. That’s down from 18.9 last year and 19.3 in 2018. Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley says reversing this trend is a priority…
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The minimum score to receive the TOPS Opportunity Award is 20.

AARP releases a COVID-19 Nursing Home Dashboard showing the positivity rate among nursing home residents in Louisiana for August 24th thru September 20th at 2-point-7 cases per 100 residents. AARP State Director Denise Botcher…
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The data also shows point six percent of all nursing home residents in Louisiana died of COVID during that roughly one month time period.

No LSU game Saturday because of a COVID outbreak involving the Florida football team. The game has been postponed until December 12th. The 21st ranked Cajuns suffered their first loss of the season as they lost to Coastal Carolina 30-27 on a last-second field goal last night.

New Orleans was awarded the 2024 Super Bowl, but the city will host the big game in 2025 instead because the date for the 2024 game would interfere with the Carnival season as the NFL will soon expand its regular season to 17 games. Greater New Orleans Sports Foundation CEO Jay Cicero says holding both events simultaneously would be impossible…
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