Sunday, May 26 2013 1:21 AM EDT2013-05-26 05:21:48 GMT
People in both Oklahoma and here in the ArkLaTex are still in clean up mode from last week's severe weather outbreak and Phyllis Rosalies and her husband were included in that damage.More >>
People in both Oklahoma and here in the ArkLaTex are still in clean up mode from last week's severe weather outbreak and Phyllis Rosalies and her husband were included in that damage.More >>
Saturday, May 25 2013 11:46 AM EDT2013-05-25 15:46:38 GMT
A bill looking to set legal guidelines the surrogate process is stirring up controversy. Both liberal and conservative groups, are against the bill.More >>
A bill looking to set legal guidelines the surrogate process is stirring up controversy. Both liberal and conservative groups, are against the bill.More >>
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Detectives with the Bossier City Police Department's Violent Crimes Unit on Friday arrested the suspect in the May 5 drive-by shooting death of 20-year old Devonte Demarcus English.More >>
Detectives with the Bossier City Police Department's Violent Crimes Unit on Friday arrested the suspect in the May 5 drive-by shooting death of 20-year old Devonte Demarcus English.More >>
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - A New Orleans-based federal judge has halted Gov. Bobby Jindal's voucher program in Tangipahoa Parish, saying it conflicts with a decades-old desegregation case.
The Advocate reports (http://bit.ly/Re0xNn ) that U.S. District Judge Ivan Lemelle ruled Monday that a series of sweeping education changes clash with court orders in the 47-year-old desegregation case. Those changes including the voucher program and a revamp of teacher job protections.
The voucher program pays private school tuition for some students from low-performing schools. School system attorneys argue it diverts state money from local schools - and from efforts to comply with orders in the 1965 desegregation case.
Superintendent of Education John White said the ruling will be appealed.
The ruling could have implications beyond Tangipahoa Parish. Several other Louisiana school districts are under federal desegregation orders.
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