A bill filed for the upcoming session provides an incentive for students to attend a Louisiana public university if they achieve a score of 31 or higher on the ACT. Ruston Representative Christopher Turner is proposing that high school students who score that high can receive up to 12-thousand dollars yearly in TOPS scholarship money to attend a public university in Louisiana…
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Participation in the TOPS scholarship has declined.
It’s Love the Boot Week. Lt Governor Bill Nungesser says there are over 20,000 volunteers pitching in to clean up the state and he’s encouraging ever Louisianian to participate…
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During Love the Boot Week last year, 19, 441 volunteers removed 347 tons of litter. They also planted 921 trees, 4,408 plants and refurbished 366 gardens.
For the last two school years, teachers have received a two-thousand-dollar stipend on top of their regular pay, but that additional two-thousand dollars for teachers and one-thousand dollars for school support staff is set to go away because Constitutional Amendment Two did not pass. Senate President Cameron Henry says the goal is to give teachers a permanent pay raise, but finding the money to do that will be difficult…
Discussion on next fiscal year’s budget ramps up with the start of the legislative session next week.
An argument for increasing tariffs on other countries is that it will lead to more manufacturing of goods in the United States. Last month, it was announced Hyundai will build a 5-point-eight-billion dollar steel mill in Ascension Parish. LSU Economics professor Dek Terrell says it still costs more to makes things in the United States than other countries,….
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