BRAC recommends raising bar on TOPS
As part of its push to give higher education management boards authority over setting tuition and fees—instead of the Legislature—BRAC is taking on one of the state's most sacred cows: TOPS. In a report released this morning, BRAC...
DATE: May 22, 2013 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
Gone Country
Country music fans will no doubt have a big Memorial Day weekend as the Bayou Country Superfest lands in Tiger Stadium.
DATE: May 22, 2013 | CATEGORY: News (225)
News roundup: Danos to build new headquarters in Gray … Adams and Reese expanding to South Carolina … Cohn Turner officially becomes Perlis store
Making plans: Danos & Curole Marine Contractors has selected a site in Gray, La., to build a new $10 million corporate headquarters, company officials and Gov. Bobby Jindal announced today. In addition, Danos announced it is...
DATE: May 21, 2013 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
Capitol Views: MFP rejected again
The Jindal administration and BESE suffered another setback today when the Senate Education Committee rejected for the second time the Minimum Foundation Program formula. Unless BESE comes back with another resolution fast, there will be no new MFP...
DATE: May 21, 2013 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
Lawmaker says Arkansas Obamacare model can work here
Sen. Ben Nevers, D-Bogalusa, spoke today in support of a bill that would allow low-income Louisiana residents to buy health insurance with federal Medicaid money. Meanwhile, a few blocks away at the Capitol, lawmakers voted to defer the bill,...
DATE: May 20, 2013 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
Business Report Weekly Planner
Wednesday — The Louisiana Small Business Development Center hosts a workshop on starting and financing a business idea. The free workshop takes place at the Denham Springs/Walker branch of the Livingston Parish Library, 8101...
DATE: May 20, 2013 | CATEGORY: Events
CABL: Compromise on the budget
Amid all the political theater that has surrounded this year's state budget, CABL says, some good things have happened. The Revenue Estimating Conference found...
DATE: May 17, 2013 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
State receives applications for more than 100 charter schools
Editor's note: This is a press release provided to Daily Report by the Louisiana Department of Education.
DATE: May 16, 2013 | CATEGORY: News
Capitol Views: BESE asked to redo MFP
As hundreds of voucher students rallied on the Capitol steps, the Senate Education Committee decided to ask BESE to rewrite the school funding formula in light of the recent Supreme Court ruling. The validity of the current Minimum Foundation...
DATE: May 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
Surplus envy creeps in as other states do better
Through the last five years of ongoing, agonizing budget deficits and midyear cuts, Louisiana politicians could at least console themselves knowing that other states were grappling with the same financial woes brought on by the national recession.
DATE: May 14, 2013 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
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