An online portal set up by the Department of Education is accepting public comments about Common Core. Emelie Gunn spoke with a state lawmaker about the review process…
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The Army announce 388 soldiers will be cut from Fort Polk. Jeff Palermo has more on how people feel about this…
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The State Department of Education has set up an online portal to accept comments from the public about Common Core. This is part of the extensive review process of the controversial English and math standards. Lake Charles Rep. Brett Geymann helped set up this public comment period…
Geymann says the comments made on the online portal will be reviewed next month by 101 educators and other experts who have been charged to provide BESE with possible changes to Common Core….
As part of the review process, Geymann says the new governor, legislature and BESE will have a say on what changes could be made. He say to provide public comments visit louisiana.statestandards.com.
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The Avoyelles Parish Sheriff’s Office says a man shot and killed his 7-year-old daughter, then turned the gun on himself in an apparent murder/suicide. Sheriff Doug Anderson says they got a 911 call around 8:50pm Wednesday evening in reference to two bodies laying in a field in the Vick area…:
Anderson says they determined that 28-year-old Ryan Recktenwald killed his young daughter and then killed himself. He says they have no idea what caused this man to do such a thing…:
Anderson says the call came from from the residence next to the field where Recktenwald and his daughter lived with his ex-girlfriend. He says investigators interviewed people that knew the father…:
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The Jefferson Davis Parish Sheriff’s office says a man has died after he tried to steal copper from a utility pole. Chris Ivey, commands the sheriff’s office criminal investigations division, says 51-year-old Jesse Jones III of Reeves was electrocuted while trying to yank down copper wire from pols near U-S Highway 165…
Jones was pronounced dead at a Lake Charles hospital and three others were arrested on theft charges. Ivey says Entergy officials report the four men performed 10-thousand dollars in damages to eight power lines
Ivey says three men who were also involved in stealing of the copper wire, were the ones that alerted the authorities about the electrocution…
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The US Army has announced a soldier reduction of 388 at Fort Polk. It’s part of a troop reduction of 40-thousand that’s impacting Army bases across the country. Fort Polk Progress Chairman Michael Reese is glad the Army spared major cuts to the Vernon Parish military base…
Reese says the Joint Readiness Training Center on the base will not be touched by the reduction. He says their main concern was cuts to the depolyable combat brigade, which also will not lose any soldiers.
Reese says their main focus now is to prevent future reductions. He says Louisiana delegates are paving the way nationally to stop the Army from making any more cuts.
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