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Richard Berkow BizPac Review 9/4/2014 A federal judge has bucked the current trend and ruled that states have the right to define “marriage” for themselves. Judge Martin L. C. Feldman upheld the Obama-shunted principle of federalism when he ruled Wednesday that the Louisiana definition of marriage as the union of a man and a woman […] September 4th, 2014 | Tags: Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), Judge Martin L.C. Feldman, marriage, U.S. v. Windsor | Category: Louisiana, SCOTUS, States, US Constitution | Comments are closed
Victor Skinner EAGnews.org 9/2/2014 WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Mike Lee and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal have a message for Big Government: stop meddling in local education decisions. “As a U.S. Senator, I’ve seen the federal government make a mess of everything it touches,” Lee, a Republican from Utah, wrote in a recent email sent […] September 2nd, 2014 | Tags: 'Race to the Top', "Common Core of State Standards Initiative Project", Gov. Bobby Jindal, Sen. Mike Lee | Category: Department of Education, Education, federal funding, History, Louisiana, Progressives | Comments are closed
Maria Santos The Washington Free Beacon 8/27/2014 Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R.) filed a lawsuit against the Obama administration over Common Core Wednesday, arguing that the government’s role in pushing the standards on states threatened states’ rights and abused federal funds. Although proponents of the standards depict them as “a state-led effort,” states adopted the […] August 27th, 2014 | Tags: 'Race to the Top', "Common Core of State Standards Initiative Project", Anne Hyslop, Diane Ravitch, Gov. Bobby Jindal, law suits | Category: Department of Education, Education, federal funding, Louisiana, Politics | Comments are closed
Ian Huyett The Libertarian Republic 29 May 2014 Nine years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans’s Recovery School District – created in 2003 to take over the administration of Louisiana’s lowest-performing schools – is undertaking groundbreaking educational reform. This week, it permanently closed down its five board-run public schools: from now on, all of its facilities […] May 31st, 2014 | Tags: Charter schools, New Orleans, Recovery School District | Category: Education, Louisiana | Comments are closed
Joe Saunders BizPac Review 4/23/2014 Finally fed up with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s low-rent, bullying tactics, the Louisiana Republican Party on Wednesday filed a formal complaint against Reid with the Senate Select Committee on Ethics, charging Reid had abused taxpayer dollars in his endless invective against wealthy Republicans. Meanwhile, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince […] April 23rd, 2014 | Tags: Bureau of Land Management, Cliven Bundy, federal land, Gov. Rick Perry, Koch brothers, Louisiana Republican Party, Reince Priebus, Sen. Dean Heller, Sen. Harry Reid | Category: Congress, corruption, Department of the Interior, Ethics, Louisiana, Nevada, Oklahoma, Politicians, Texas | Comments are closed
Kyle Olson EAGnews.org 3/24/2014 BATON ROUGE, La. – A Louisiana mother isn’t happy about a number of probing questions her school district asks about her child in a “Psycho-Social Checklist” sent home to parents last week. “The following is a checklist of psycho-social stressors that may impact a student’s academic and social functioning,” the Central […] March 30th, 2014 | Tags: "Common Core of State Standards Initiative Project", "Psycho-Social Checklist", "sexual identity issues", Bill of Rights, John White, student privacy | Category: 4th Amendment, Arkansas, Education, Louisiana, Right to Privacy | Comments are closed
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