Governor Bobby Jindal announces a plan to removed Common Core from Louisiana’s public schools and replace it with educational standards and a standardized test developed by Louisiana teachers and parents. He says the plan will be presented to lawmakers next month for the new legislative session…
CUT 12 (13) Q: “in our classrooms”
The announcement coincides with 316 thousand students in the state who are taking Common Core tests right now.

The drop in the price of oil is being seen in a new lease sale today at the Mercedes Benz Superdome in New Orleans. Regulators report only 195 bids for new oil and gas leasing were placed off the coast of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. That’s the lowest amount since 1986, when there were only 129 bids offered.
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A new statewide poll show residents support for higher cigarette taxes, but the numbers for Governor Bobby Jindal, who proposed the idea-along with other cuts, are not so good. Only 28-percent of respondents gave him a positive rating. LA-politics-dot-com Publisher Jeremy Alford says he’s not convinced of that…
CUT 11 (10) Q: : “more believeable”
Still, he says, that’s not even close to where the governor was 7 years ago.

Last November Mike The Tiger Six made a post on Facebook letting fans know that his trainers practice with him all summer to get into the cage, but now he refuses to do so on gameday, and is not food motivated. Former caretaker Paul Marks Jr. says back in his day their Mike wasn’t in a 5 million dollar enclosure.
CUT 8 (05) Q: “happy there”
Marks was caretaker from 1963 to 1965.