State education officials announce that Louisiana has been awarded a federal grant of up to $32 million over four years to provide new and improved pre-k classes for over 10,000 children. Eric Gill has more…
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The United Health Foundation released its 25th annual America’s Health Rankings and once again Louisiana is 48th in the nation — the same rank we had last year. Michelle Southern reports…:
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State education officials announce that Louisiana has been awarded a federal grant of up to $32 million over four years to provide new and improved pre-k classes for over 10,000 children. State Education Superintendent John White says the grant is a tremendous step forward for the state. He says this grant will help address the demand issues for availability in the early childhood education system in the state…
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The grant will offer classroom seats to over 4,500 additional 4-year-olds in the state. White says it will also allow nearly 6,000 children to attend classes run by college-educated teachers which will address concerns of uneven quality in those classes…
Louisiana is one of 13 states to receive this grant. White says this grant will help improve the overall education of these children. He says, right now, 44-percent of Louisiana kids coming into kindergarten can’t recognize all 26 letters of the alphabet or count to 20…
CUT 5 (08) “enter the workforce”
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The United Health Foundation released its 25th annual America’s Health Rankings and once again Louisiana is 48th in the nation — the same rank we had last year. Dr. Catherine Palmier, Chief Medical Officer for the Foundation’s East Region, says Louisiana has a very high rate of preventable hospitalizations…:
Palmier says other factors keeping our rank near the bottom in the nation is the high rate of obesity at 33% of the population, physical inactivity which is 30% and smoking which at 23%. She also says we have an extremely high incidence of low birthweight babies…:
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Palmier says there were some positive findings on this years report including a 15 percent decrease in children in poverty over the past year. She also says physical inactivity has decreased by 10 percent over the past 2 years. Palmier says Louisiana ranks high in the number of teenagers who have been immunized…:
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It’s being reported that the University of Michigan has reached out to LSU Head Coach Les Miles’ agent in regard to their football coach vacancy. Tiger Rag editor Robert Stewart isn’t surprised that Miles’ alma mater is guaging his interest. He thinks Coach Miles will take that phone call from Michigan every time…
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Stewart says he doesn’t think talks will go much farther than this. Stewart doesn’t see Miles leaving LSU for Michigan. He says family would be a major consideration to Miles, as he has children currently enrolled in schools here. Stewart says the coach and his family have entrenched themselves in Louisiana and it would be difficult to leave…
In the Miles era, LSU has won over 100 football games and brought home 2 SEC championships and a national championship in 2007. Stewart says that success is another reason Miles won’t accept Michigan’s offer. He says the situation at Michigan is a mess, right now…
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Baton Rouge Mayor Kip Holden announced today he is joining the race for Lt. Governor of Louisiana. The Democrat says one of the things he plans to focus on during his campaign is promoting the small towns in the state…:
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Holden says he has contacts all over Louisiana to help get his name out there and prove to voters he’s fit to serve as Lt. Governor…:
Holden says he became the only mayor in the history of Baton Rouge to carry every precinct and he’s constantly told by Republicans that he’s the only Democrat they’ve ever voted for. He says he’s not worried about the elections this year and the fact that Louisiana is leaning to the conservative side…: