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Louisiana has the highest incarceration rate per capita in the nation with one in 26 residents under correctional control, and Jimmy LeBlanc, head honcho of the state’s prison system, believes the looming $39 million shortage in much needed funding to local and state prisons won’t help change th

IN THE SENATE
Manship School News Service
The following bills have cleared both chambers of the Louisiana Legislature and now either head to conference committee to work out House or Senate changes or directly to the governor’s desk for his signing into law or veto:

The House Education Committee unanimously killed a bill Wednesday to allow students with disabilities who do not pass a graduate exit exam or a final course test but met all the other requirements retroactively could apply for a high school diploma.

EHS class of 1966 to meet May 23
The Eunice High Class of 1966 will meet for lunch at Ruby’s at 11:30 a.m. Monday, May 23.

LSUE is one of 44 post-secondary institutions selected as an experimental site for a U.S. Department of Education program aimed at increasing college graduation rates by allowing high school students to enroll in the college.