By Piper Hutchinson | Reporter
The Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education approved the final instructions for school districts on how to handle the stipends Gov. Jeff Landry mandated in an executive order last month. The guidelines give schools more flexibility regarding teacher pay than had been discussed previously.
Louisiana school districts who give locally-funded pay increases of any size to teachers this year can now use them to offset state funding cuts they were supposed to receive. (SDI Productions via Getty Images)
By Julie O’Donoghue
With less than a month to go until the first day of school, state officials have updated the plan to cut state funding to public schools in order to fund teacher pay stipends this year.
Mifepristone, one of two drugs approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to terminate a pregnancy before 10 weeks’ gestation, can be dispensed without an in-person visit to a healthcare provider under FDA regulations. Whether that provision will remain is the subject of a battle is playing out before the U.S. Supreme Court. (Photo illustration by Natalie Behring/Getty Images)
By Halle Parker, Verite
The reclassification of misoprostol as a controlled substance has set back progress to decrease the frequency of postpartum hemorrhage and blood transfusions. Under the law, one doctor’s preliminary research found, hemorrhage rates have worsened statewide, she said.
Students in Louisiana will soon be able to receive federal grants, once exclusively available to attend four-year schools, to take part in short-term workforce training programs. (Photo by Charlotte Rene Woods/Virginia Mercury)
By Piper Hutchinson
Students in Louisiana will soon be able to receive federal grants, once exclusively available to attend four-year schools, to take part in short-term workforce training programs. But strict reporting requirements could make it difficult for programs to remain eligible.
By Amelia Twyman
President Donald Trump announced the addition of Republican governors, legislators, utility services and tech companies to his voluntary pledge aimed at keeping data center construction and operation costs off the shoulders of American consumers.
By Shalina Chatlani
The number of cases of cyclosporiasis — a parasitic infection linked to contaminated water or food that causes severe intestinal issues — has more than doubled to over 4,173 cases across 41 states this week, up from the 1,645 confirmed cases in 34 states reported last week by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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