The Louisiana Department of Education says public school students performed better on LEAP tests during the 2021-22 school year after seeing test scores fall in the previous school year due to the pandemic. Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley says fewer students scored unsatisfactory, including a three-point decrease in students scoring unsatisfactory in math…
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Today the state department of education is hosting a school safety summit in Baton Rouge. Over 800 people are in attendance that includes local school leaders, law enforcement, governmental agencies and mental health experts. Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley says in over 70-percent of school violence incidents, a student knew something was amiss, but told no one…
cut 8 (10) “…reporting that”

The dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico is smaller than last year. It’s at 3,275 square miles. That’s less than half the size of last year. LSU marine ecologist Nancy Rabalais says a combination of weather events led to the smaller size. She says drought conditions in the Midwest reduced the water flow from the Mississippi River into the Gulf…
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Rabalais says the goal is to get the dead zone to less than 19-hundred square miles by 2035 and more needs to be done to reduce the fertilizer runoff into the Mississippi River.

In the next hour we’ll get a revised forecast from NOAA on how many named storms we’ll see this hurricane season. So far we’ve only seen three, but State Climatologist Barry Keim says we are still a couple of weeks away from the heart of the season…
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NOAA previously predicted 14 to 21 named storms this year and six to ten hurricanes.