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BATON ROUGE — "Mudslinging" in the 2006 statewide campaigns, especially the insurance commissioner race, set new lows in campaigning, even for Louisiana, says Frank Ransburg, a political historian and retired Southern University professor.
YWCA of Northwest Louisiana will hold its 13th annual Week Without Violence on Oct. 15-21. The observance is part of an international campaign focusing attention on practical and sustainable alternatives to violence and attempts to bring forth a vision of a safer and healthier community.
The Iberia Parish School Board will select names for its two new elementary schools when it meets Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. in its administrative office on Jane Street.
Common sense and conservatism, which are usually similar, said the No Child Left Behind law, which vastly expanded the federal government's supervision of education grades K through 12, was problematic for two reasons: A few of the 50 state governors are apt to be wise innovators, so let policymaking remain at state and local levels.
Question: The state Republican Party has approved a resolution that supports teaching creationism alongside evolution in public schools. In addition, a couple of surveys indicate South Dakota biology teachers think that’s not a bad idea.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Louisiana voters on Saturday approved a change to the state Constitution that will limit government's power to take private land in an effort to spur economic development. In all, voters approved 11 of 13 proposed constitutional changes on the ballot.
A recent graduate of exclusive Wellesley College, Alice Chen was contemplating medical school or a career in investment banking in New York. Instead, she chose to become one of 53 top college graduates from around the country recruited to teach in disadvantaged local public schools.
He's fighting a bias against players from small schools, but Northern Illinois' running back Garrett Wolfe pushed himself even closer to the consciousness of Heisman Trophy voters Saturday night with 353 yards, Dennis Dodd says in his Sunday 7.
The national president of the Catholic League has apologized for a recent letter accusing the Louisiana Recovery Authority of anti-Catholic bias in its consideration of a request by the Archdiocese of New Orleans for money to repair its schools.
The most key U.S. Supreme Court case involving creationism and evolution in the public schools was Edwards v. Aguillard in 1987. The court declared unconstitutional Louisiana's so-called "Creationism Act," which banned the teaching of evolution unless "creation science" also was taught.

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