LSU clears up Verge Ausberry’s status as the school’s athletic director. Jeff Palermo has the story.
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A new survey shows widespread support for increased state spending in early childhood education programs. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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One day after LSU president Wade Rousse said Verge Ausberry was the acting Athletics Director, an LSU spokesperson tells the Louisiana Radio Network that Ausberry is THE director of athletics at LSU. It was reported on Tuesday night that Ausberry was the permanent A-D. Even interim head football coach Frank Wilson discussed Ausberry’s promotion yesterday morning as a positive step for the university.
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Confusion came about yesterday when Rousse called Ausberry the acting A-D, a similar title to interim athletics director.
On the LSU website, Ausberry’s bio says he is the director of athletics. Ausberry has worked at the LSU athletics department for 24 years and the New Iberia native is a longtime senior administrator at his alma mater. He’s been involved in four previous head football coaches’ searches and is leading the search for Brian Kelly’s replacement.
Wilson says Ausberry deserves an opportunity to lead the LSU athletics department.
LSU women’s basketball coach Kim Mulkey is heartbroken over the firing of LSU A-D Scott Woodward. But she is happy for Ausberry.
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A new poll shows widespread support for lawmakers to increase spending in early childhood education, with 65-percent of respondents saying they favor it. Libbie Sonnier, the CEO of the Louisiana Policy Institute for Children, says early childhood education is becoming out of reach for many families in Louisiana.
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Sonnier says with the cost of early childhood education taking a huge chunk out of family finances, that puts greater importance on programs like federally supported programs like Head Start. Sonnier says there are two programs in the state which are funded by Head Start – Clover and Primetime – and they have enough money to operate this month.
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Sonnier says federal support alone is not enough to make early childhood education affordable for many Louisiana families.
Sonnier points out that responses were fairly consistent across political lines, with nearly half of Republicans and almost 85-percent of Democrats saying the state needs to do more to support early childhood education. UpONE Insights surveyed 500 Louisiana voters between September 8th through the 13th, and it has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.4-percent.
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A 15-year-old boy is killed early this morning in a drive-by shooting in Ruston. Ruston Police Lieutenant Kayla Loyd says the boy’s grandmother called paramedics to the home during the overnight hours, not realizing that he had been shot.
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The teen was rushed to a hospital but did not survive his injuries. Loyd says the investigation is in the very early stages, and detectives are working to determine whether this was a targeted shooting or if this was random.
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No one has been arrested, and Loyd says not only do they not have a description of the shooters or the vehicle, assuming a vehicle was even involved in the first place.
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A major cold front is coming for Louisiana, but LRN meteorologist Bill Jacquemin says we’ll see some mild temperatures until it arrives on late Saturday night and Sunday morning.
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Jacquemin says we are looking at our first significant freeze Monday morning and Monday will be the coldest day in Louisiana in several months.
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Wind chills during this time will be in the 20s for north Louisiana.