A record-high 87 hundred students in the Bayou State earned a three or better on their Advanced Placement exams. Teiko Foxx on what this means…
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If you want a job in Governor-elect Jeff Landry’s administration, go to his new transition website oneteam.la. Jeff Palermo has the story…
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The Louisiana Department of Education has released the 2022-2023 Advanced Placement results which show high school seniors have earned record achievement on their placement tests. Nearly nine thousand students earned a three or better. Superintendent of Education Dr. Cade Brumley says students who earned a three or better can earn college credits for the course.
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In total, 41 percent of students earned a three or better on their AP exam. A record nearly 87 hundred students earned a three or better on their AP exam, a 19 percent increase from than pre-pandemic total of 73 hundred in 2019. Brumley says Louisiana must continue to raise the bar for students in the Bayou State
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More than 13 thousand exams were passed. Students who earned a three or better may be eligible for college credit courses that families will not have to pay for. Brumley says seniors earned the first annual increase in average ACT in six years.
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Governor-Elect Jeff Landry announced his transition website today. Landry’s transition theme is one dream, one team, one Louisiana, so the transition website is oneteam.la. He says there’s a place on the website for the public to share their ideas on making the state better
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Landry says the website will also have transition committee information and press releases. He says there will also be an application portal on the website for those interesting in working in his administration…
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Landry has also identified 14 areas in Louisiana that need the most attention and he’s named chairpersons that will lead a committee to come up with solution-driven ideas. The governor-elect says one of the panels formed will look at how to improve New Orleans…
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The Don’t Pollute the Boot state is now home to the first-ever Litter Institute in the country. Executive Director of Keep Louisiana Beautiful Susan Russell says the LSU Litter Institute will not only study the trash issue locally but across the nation to find solutions.
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Governor John Bel Edwards championed the issue, along with Lt. Governor Billy Nungesser, and asked the legislature for $800,000 to establish the institute.
Russell says the Institute is filling a void because there’s no central location for best practices and studies on the issue. She says it goes beyond people simply not disposing of trash properly and it’s a complicated issue.
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A recent survey said there are approximately 144 million pieces of litter on Louisiana roadways alone.
Russell says the Bayou State is literally a trash receptacle for other states because of litter that flows into the Mississippi River and ultimately the Gulf. Louisiana receives the drainage of approximately 100 million people, 40 percent of the continental US.
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Trash flowing into the Gulf of Mexico from the Mississippi River has resulted in some of the highest concentrations of microplastics in the world which impacts the state’s seafood industry.
For more information visit KeepLouisianaBeautiful.org
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A freeze warning has been issued for most parishes north of I-10 as the temperature is expected to get below during the overnight hours into tomorrow morning. LRN meteorologist John Wetherbee…
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Wetherbee says high temperatures will get back into the upper 70s and 80s this weekend, but we have to prepare for a cold night…
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