BESE has approved an appeals process to give students who are unable to pass the standardized testing another option to graduate. Some lawmakers are giving the plan a failing grade. Louisiana Senator John Kennedy believes BESE is taking a massive step backward.
BESE President Dr. Holly Boffy says four percent of high school seniors are unable to graduate because they can’t pass the LEAP test. That could mean the students are poor test takers not because they can’t read. She points out that students achieve at different levels.
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The House Education Committee will meet Thursday to review the policy.
Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin says controversies associated with replacing Louisiana voting is why he’s leaving after this term. He says he also faced harassment and intimidation.
Ardoin says his health also began to suffer due to the stress and pressure. His last attempt in two years ago received pushback as opponents of the Dominion Voting systems wanted them eliminated as an option.
One hundred sixty thousand people have been removed from state Medicaid rolls since April after federal pandemic protections ended and a third of them are children. Executive Director of the Louisiana Budget Project Jan Moller…
Moller says to the state’s credit they’ve done a very good job notifying those on Medicaid of the need to revisit their eligibility.