Two Louisiana teachers won the Milken educator award, the nation’s preeminent teachers’ program. Teiko Foxx has more…
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The LSU football program put the finishing touches on its 2024 recruiting class today. Jeff Palermo has the story…
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U-S Senator Bill Cassidy is once again not seeing eye-to-eye with Governor Jeff Landry as the senior senator opposes the idea of sending Louisiana National Guard troops to the U-S-Mexico border. Cassidy has concerns about the projected cost to the state…
Cassidy also does not support the state moving federal elections to party primaries in 2026. He says such a move will cost taxpayers an estimated 135-million dollars over ten years.
Cassidy says three million dollars to send National Guard troops to the southern border, 135-million dollars for party primaries. He says that 138-million dollars could help proposed tolls for a new I-10 Lake Charles bridge…
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Landry is expected to provide more details about a National Guard deployment to the southern border at a press conference tomorrow. Cassidy says he’s as frustrated as anyone about the number of migrants entering the United States, but using state dollars to address a federal problem is not the solution…
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Two south Louisiana teachers earned the national Milken Educator Award and a cash prize of $25,000 on Tuesday. The winners were Christine Bayard and Derrick Winn. New Iberia math teacher, Christine Bayard, won the award for her innovative approach to transforming her classroom into real-world environments including outer space.
Bayard, who teaches at Johnston-Hopkins Elementary, learned of the award during an assembly attended by Milken Educator Award Founder Lowell Milken and State superintendent of Education Dr. Cade Brumley.
After getting the surprise of her life, the UL Lafayette graduate says her commitment to invest in education has paid off.
Winn, a third-grade math and science teacher in Baton Rouge, was recognized for his ability to captivate his young students through mind-blogging math challenges. The Crestworth Elementary educator was unaware of his candidacy for the award…
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Bayard and Winn joins a group of 74 teachers who have been recognized as a Milken Educator from across the country during the 2023-2024 school year.
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Southeastern Louisiana University has deployed four research buoys to monitor the Lake Maurepas ecosystem. The goal is to see where the lake stands before Air Products begin its project to inject carbon emissions into wells deep beneath the lake. Director of Lake Maurepas Monitoring Program Kyle Piller says the buoy captures real time data four times every hour…
Two buoys are placed in Livingston Parish, one in Tangipahoa Parish, and one in St. John Parish. The Blind River buoy has a weather station to gather air temperature, wind speed, barometric pressure, and precipitation.
Piller says residents have expressed concerns about carbon capture in the lake. He says if one of the perimeters is out of the normal range…
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Researchers will monitor the health of fish, check the condition of the wetlands, and take water samples.
Piller says the information will be posted on easy to read dashboards on southeastern dot edu forward slash lakemaurepas.