Louisiana Department of Education Education plans to increase student safety by funding a single point of entry for campuses across the state through a new 21-million-dollar grant program. Superintendent Dr. Cade Brumley says more than 40 grants of half a million each will be awarded. He says a webinar on the application process for the one-time funding will be held for school principals today.
Governor John Bel Edwards talked about his efforts to raise the state’s minimum wage on his monthly radio show “Ask the Governor,” and how gubernatorial candidate Stephen Waguespack opposed increasing living wages for Louisianans. Edwards thinks Waguespack will be silent on the topic over the next several months.
Edwards is supporting former Transportation Secretary Shawn Wilson in the governor’s race.
Congressman Garret Graves introduces a bill to streamline federal disaster recovery assistance for storms and hurricanes. Graves says the current federal disaster recovery processes take years to get the necessary funding to local governments trying to assist communities and businesses in need.
Cut 10 (10) “…or spend the dollars.”
The Natural Disaster Recovery Program Act would create block grants under FEMA for “unmet needs.”
The second man convicted in the December 2021 attack on a newspaper delivery driver in Rosepine has been sentenced. 24-year-old, Dillion James was sentenced to eight years in prison – the maximum sentence for his second-degree battery conviction. Vernon Parish District Attorney Terry Lambright .
His brother Douglas James received a similar sentence in October.