Tough on Crime or Right on Crime?

By Sarah Harbison

07/26/2013

Louisiana can find a better way to fight crime, prioritize victims and protect taxpayers.

TAGS: Austin Badon, Criminal Justice Reform, incarceration rate, Louisiana, Right On Crime, Sentencing Commission, Texas Public Policy Foundation

Statewide Anti-Bullying Strategy Set for Expansion

By Robert Ross

05/18/2011

Rep. Austin Badon’s (D - Orleans) HB 112 seeks to prohibit the harassment, intimidation, and bullying of students in Louisiana’s public school districts. The proposal would strengthen a 2001 law that mandated all Louisiana public schools include a policy in their student code of conduct to prohibit bullying.

TAGS: Anti-Bullying, Austin Badon, Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, Penny Dastugue, Peter Sheras, Utterly Global

School Board Spending Transparency

HB38 by Representative Rick Edmonds brings sunlight to local school district spending by adding many school districts to the Louisiana Fiscal Transparency Website, LouisianaCheckbook.com, and requiring other smaller entities to post enhanced transparency on their websites. It is modeled after both Louisiana Checkbook and an existing project by the Lafayette Parish School Board to post...

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