Louisiana Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley says there will be no statewide mask mandate in K-12 public schools when the school year starts next month, and there won’t be a vaccine mandate for students either. Brumley says the goal for the upcoming school year will be to get the experience as close as possible to how it used to be before the pandemic, and while it will be for the most part there’s one policy that will remain in place…
Senator Bill Cassidy says it’s a relief to hear that in person education will be returning shortly. He says even with the new, more threatening Delta variant circulating only students with preexisting health conditions should seek an alternative learning environment.
We’ll know by Friday if lawmakers will be heading back to Baton Rouge for a veto override session. LaPolitics.com publisher Jeremy Alford says it appears likely that neither the House nor Senate will see the majority support for cancelling the session that would be needed to call it off. Once that session kicks off on July 20th however it’s anyone’s guess which vetoes will get overridden…
Graduates of Grambling and LA Tech are being offered 10,000 dollars to return to Ruston. Mayor Ronny Walker says this “Welcome to Ruston” push is aimed at skilled remote workers, and they hope to get 25 eligible applicants this year, and 50 the next…