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

Harvard Study Calls for New Education Priorities

By Editor
02/22/2011
Harvard's Graduate School of Education releases "Pathways to Prosperity", a study which aims to have educators place a stronger emphasis on vocational and occupational degrees, as opposed to sending all students to four-year universities.

TAGS: Competitive Enterprise Institute, Education Reform, Frederick Hess, Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, Pathways to Prosperity, Penny Dastugue, Southern Regional Education Board

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A Tax Plan for Our Brighter Future

A Tax Plan for Our Brighter Future paper-digital In Louisiana’s Comeback: A Tax Reform for Our Brighter Future, the Pelican Institute identifies the state’s significant tax problems and proposes a path to set the state in a brighter direction, including flattening the personal and corporate income taxes to 3.5% rates, reducing the number of tax preferences, eliminating...

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