Board of Elementary and Secondary Education President Sandy Holloway calls Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley’s plan to allow parents to decide if their child should stay home if there was a possible COVID exposure, abrupt and inconsistent with what health officials recommend. Fellow BESE member Kira Orange Jones agrees…
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Some school systems are implementing this new parent choice option, while others are not changing their quarantine rules.

Congress has finally approved long-sought-after disaster recovery dollars to help 2020 storm victims rebuild. Louisiana and other states will share 28-billion dollars in disaster aid. Senator John Kennedy says the money is contained in a bill that avoids a government shutdown…
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Louisiana ranks 5th in the nation for most women murdered by men. Brooke Thorington has more on the rankings from the Violence Policy Center.
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Officials have released the names of six nursing home patients who died in the evacuation to a warehouse in Tangipahoa Parish that was not equipped to handle over 800 residents during Hurricane Ida. They are identified as 59-year-old Sharon French, 52-year-old Timothy Porter, 77-year-old Thomas Becnel, 61-year-old Randolph Blankenship, 75-year-old Catherine Williams, and 84-year-old Donald Uzee.