State Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley is proposing 30 hours of summer school for k-4th graders who are not reading at grade level. Brumley says many students lost valuable in-classroom instruction during the first two years of the pandemic and may need to catch up. He says the summer school literacy program would sunset in two years.
The proposal will be discussed at the Oct. 11th BESE meeting and if approved will go into effect in summer 2023 and 2024
Louisiana Tech is preparing for an aviation partnership with United Airlines for qualified pilots. Dean of the College of Liberal Arts Karl Puljak (pull-yak) the partnership helps united fill job vacancies and it also opens the door for students who are underrepresented in the industry.
Louisiana has officially surpassed 18,000 COVID-19 deaths since the state recorded its first Covid- 19 death on march 14th. LDH reported that 18,009 people have died in its Friday Covid-19 data update. In Louisiana Covid 19 is the third leading cause of death since 2020 behind heart disease and cancer.
Funeral services for Lucille Babineaux begin tomorrow in New Iberia. She was the matriarch of a family of 105, including former Governor—and Lt. Governor—Kathleen Blanco. Marsanne Golsby has more about her remarkable life..