Latest Bobby Jindal Headlines
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Texas Brine offers settlements for sinkhole
Texas Brine Co. said Friday that it has started extending settlement offers to Assumption Parish residents who have been under an evacuation order since August because of a 15-acre sinkhole. The company operated a collapsed salt dome that authorities say caused the sinkhole. Texas Brine spokesman Sonny Cranch said 23 ...
La. ranks high in gun violence, low in gun safety
Louisiana has the highest rate of gun violence in the nation and the weakest gun safety laws, according to a recent national study, and state lawmakers are moving to expand the already permissive statutes. According to the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, a nonprofit group that tracks gun regulations ...
Caddo school board looking for budget solution
The Caddo Parish School Board will have to find another way to start correcting its $21 million budget shortfall. The Times reports (http://bit.ly/ZigiXF ) nearly three hours of debate ended with the board right where it began before Thursday's meeting, leaving the teachers in attendance exhausted but relieved. As part ...
Notes from the Legislature's regular session
The House refused Tuesday to relinquish legislative control over tuition hikes for students at Louisiana's public colleges. A proposal by Rep. Thomas Carmody, R-Shreveport, would have spelled out in the state constitution that tuition increases don't require approval of two-thirds of the House and Senate. Carmody said the campuses need ...
Local schools owed $30M because of court ruling
The state owes local school districts $30 million because the Louisiana Supreme Court threw out this year's public school funding formula, Superintendent of Education John White said Wednesday. Lawmakers on the Senate Education Committee also asked the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to draw up a new proposal for ...
Justice investigating IRS targeting of tea party
The Justice Department is investigating the Internal Revenue Service for targeting tea party groups for extra scrutiny when they applied for tax exempt status, Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday, widening a probe that includes investigations by three committees in Congress. Ineffective management at the IRS allowed agents to improperly ...
GOP governors want special prosecutor in IRS case
Two Republican governors are urging President Barack Obama to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the Internal Revenue Service's admission that it targeted conservative political groups. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker call the allegations "Big Brother come to life." They want a special prosecutor to find ...
Senate rejects attempt to kill La. Science Act
The Louisiana Senate overwhelmingly rejected an attempt Monday to repeal a 2008 law that permits public school science teachers to use material outside of the adopted textbook in the classroom — leeway critics say turns science into religion. It was Sen. Karen Carter Peterson's second unsuccessful effort this session to ...
Senate backs limits on alternative fuel tax credit
The Louisiana Senate has agreed to rewrite the state's alternative fuel vehicle tax credit program, after concerns the law had been too broadly written and cost too much. The proposal by Baton Rouge Sen. Dan Claitor would definitively eliminate "flex-fuel" cars and trucks — which can burn ethanol but also ...
Analysis: Voucher ruling creates uncertainties
Gov. Bobby Jindal somehow was claiming a victory and telling parents not to worry after the Louisiana Supreme Court, in a 6-1 vote, rejected his administration's legal arguments and declared the financing of his voucher program unconstitutional. "I would tell those moms that they can breathe a deep sigh of ...
2016 looms: Paul, Jindal visit early voting states
Republican Sen. Rand Paul opened his presidential exploration tour Friday with a splashy set of speaking engagements in Iowa designed to broaden his tea party brand into something more mainstream and, perhaps, viable. At the same time, another Republican, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, became the first potential 2016 presidential candidate ...
Bills to revamp early childhood education advance
Proposals to tie public funding to student performance and issue letter grades to Louisiana's public and private early childhood education programs are finding easy passage through the Legislature. Two Senate bills are the cornerstones of Gov. Bobby Jindal's attempt to restructure early childhood education and to create uniform standards for ...
Jindal-backed private tuition vouchers take a hit
Louisiana's Supreme Court says the funding method for a private school tuition voucher program pushed through the Legislature last year by prominent Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal violates the state constitution. The voucher program was touted as a major achievement for Jindal, often mentioned as a potential presidential contender. It makes ...
La Supreme Court: Voucher funding unconstitutional
The funding method for a private school tuition voucher program pushed through the Legislature last year by Gov. Bobby Jindal is unconstitutional, the state Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in a 6-1 opinion that raised questions about how the program will be funded in the coming year. It also raised questions ...
Louisiana editorial roundup
Recent editorials from Louisiana newspapers: May 5 The Advocate, Baton Rouge, La., on an end run on textbooks: Without knowing the background, there is no apparent reason to object to a bill in the Legislature that would give local school districts more freedom to choose the textbooks they use. Unless ...
Senate panel rejects election of education chief
A bid to make Louisiana's education superintendent an elected position failed to gain traction Wednesday in the state Senate, but only after showcasing the deep divide between state and local education leaders. The state superintendent is hired by the 11-member Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, often with heavy influence ...
Senators reject repeal of Science Education Act
A Louisiana law that allows public school science teachers to use supplemental materials in their classrooms will remain on the books, despite criticism that it's a back-door way to teach creationism. The Senate Education Committee voted 3-2 Wednesday against the proposal by Sen. Karen Carter Peterson, D-New Orleans, to repeal ...
Jindal-backed voucher program grows by 3,000
Nearly 8,000 students have been approved for state-funded tuition to private schools of their choice under the statewide voucher program that is going into its second year. That's about 3,000 more than last year, and the state said more are expected to be approved in June after a second round ...
Local setbacks vex GOP governors eyeing 2016 race
Republican governors are often seen as innovative policymakers and potential presidential candidates, but a few are struggling with political or ethical problems that might crimp their ambitions. Two governors eyeing possible White House bids — Bob McDonnell of Virginia and Bobby Jindal of Louisiana — suddenly find themselves fending off ...
Jindal: $340M more from BP for Gulf restoration
BP PLC has agreed to pay $340 million to restore four of the barrier islands that act as hurricane buffers for Louisiana's mainland and create two fish research hatcheries in the state, Gov. Bobby Jindal said Tuesday. The money is part of $1 billion the oil giant agreed two years ...
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