The state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education has approved a set of minimum standards public schools are expected to follow to safely reopen. The standards include face mask requirements for teachers and students in third grade and up. Matt Doyle reports school districts that refuse to implement BESE’s minimum requirements for reopening like the mask mandate could get sued…
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Terrebonne, St. Tammany, and the Caddo Parish school systems are a few of the school districts that have decided to delay the start of the school year.

Vice President Mike Pence stressed the importance of getting kids back in the classroom during his visit to Baton Rouge yesterday…
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Pence made the comments at LSU’s Tiger Stadium after participating in a roundtable discussion with Governor Edwards, U-S Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, Louisiana higher ed leaders, and Tigers coach Ed Orgeron.

Are you tired of the extreme heat? State Climatologist Barry Keim says we’ll start to see a bit of a break for the southern half of the state as the heatwave lets up a little bit…
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The northern half of the state remains under a heat advisory today.