This Lafayette attorney helps students in need attend UL
The $10,000 Pay It Forward Scholarship gives at-risk students a chance at a brighter future.
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Education
Percussion group offers hands-on lessons in life and music
Pucci Percussions teaches kids more than how to play musical instruments. It incorporates history and heritage into lessons, and provides tools for personal growth and professional success.
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Trosclair will leave her role of four years to become principal at Eunice High School and to oversee other Eunice-area schools for the St. Landry Parish school district.
Edwards said the bill is not an outright ban, as have been passed in other states, and pointed to changes made throughout the process that he felt made the proposal better.
Source: Louisiana Illuminator
Senate Bill 7, by Sen. Heather Cloud, R-Turkey Creek, would require libraries to create a card system so parents could prevent their children from checking out books deemed inappropriate. Libraries would also have to adopt policy language to limit minors’ access to material that describes “sexual conduct,” which the bill defines in five ensuing paragraphs.
Source: Louisiana Illuminator
Bill to allow library board members to be fired without cause killed in committee
The bill sought to codify an attorney general opinion that library board members could be fired at the will of the governing authority that appointed them.
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The bill is much broader than a similar measure passed in Florida and would apply to all K-12 grades, whereas Florida’s law applies only through the third grade. The proposal applies to any school employee or volunteer, and it covers discussions in the classroom and during any extracurricular activity.
Source: Louisiana Illuminator
Under the proposal, school employees or volunteers would not be allowed to use a student’s preferred pronoun that differs from the gender listed on their birth certificate unless a student’s parent provides written permission. Even if a parent does provide permission, the bill would allow a teacher to ignore it based on religious or moral reasons.
Source: Louisiana Illuminator
The goal of the program is to have more qualified, highly-skilled nurses enter the healthcare workforce at a time when Louisiana and the nation are facing a critical shortage, the university said in a release.
Source: The Advertiser
UL student artists ponder creating or competing with AI
Art students at UL Lafayette are facing potential competition with this emerging technology and how it sources material from existing artworks.
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First, education and then, reconciliation
It is impossible to work towards reconciliation and healing, if we have never been taught/learned the historical wrongs committed against Americans by other Americans.
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Anti-censorship advocates sue Lafayette library board chair over First Amendment violations
They allege that Chair Robert Judge unlawfully silences and intimidates individuals he disagrees with.
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