A record number of Louisiana high school graduates from the class of 2018 are set to attend college this fall. The state has seen a 23 percent increase in the number of students entering college from high school since 2012. Department of Education Assistant Superintendent Jessica Bahgian says that adds up to 4,626 more students than seven years ago.
Approximately 15-hundred more students decided to enter college in the class of 18 than the class of 17.
A Senate approved bill that would allow a parish by parish vote on the legalization of sports betting will be heard today in the House Appropriations Committee.
Currently the bill calls for the activity at racetracks and casinos but video poker interests are hoping to expand that. Metairie Senator Danny Martiny says that can’t happen…
The Session is scheduled to wrap up June 6th.
The state budget is still being debated in the legislature, the senate finance committee re-wrote the house-backed spending proposal that includes an increase on college spending, a teacher pay raise and a $39 million block grant for school districts. The house version of the budget has similar teacher pay raises but excluded the $39 million dollar block grant. The budget also increases funding for health programs, child welfare, corrections and a pay raise for state employees. The $30 billion dollar operating budget now heads to the Senate floor.
Researchers from LSU’s Pennington Biomedical Research Center and other institutions will study why some people in rural parishes and counties live longer, healthier lives. Doctor Stephanie Broyles will lead the Louisiana portion of the study and they’ll look at Assumption and Franklin Parishes…