Another encouraging report about the state of Louisiana education. Louisiana students performed quite well on the Education Recovery Scorecard, leading the country in reading growth since the pandemic and coming in a close second in math. State Education Superintendent Dr. Cade Brumley says it’s a testament to the hard work that teachers are putting in, but the job’s not done.
The Recovery Scorecard is a prominent national study by both Harvard and Stanford.
Embattled law professor Ken Levy says he’ll be back in an LSU classroom tomorrow. That after state court Judge Tarvald Smith ruled yesterday that university must allow it, saying LSU had not followed its own policies in handling a complaint about comments Levy made about Governor Jeff Landry in class.
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Governor Jeff Landry has announced the state will resume executions using nitrogen gas suffocation after the corrections agency updated its protocol. State Representative Nicholas Muscarello, who crafted the legislation, there are no constitutional issues and believes the governor is honoring his commitment to the victims of these crimes.
Cut 12 (13) “…was going to do.”
The director of the Loyola Center for Social Justice, Cecilla Kappel (CAP-ill), says bringing back the death penalty is only political, and it’s a practice that is not needed in Louisiana.
Cut 13 (11) “…days of executions.”
We’re told officials in Rapides Parish are obtaining Death Warrants for Larry Roy, known as the “Cheneyville Slasher.” He killed two people in 1993, and will be the first to be put to death under the new protocol on March 19th if courts don’t step in.