The New Orleans Times-Picayune reports that efforts to repeal the 2008 Science Education Act have failed despite efforts by Louisiana Senator Karen Carter and affidavits from “43 Nobel laureates, faculty members and administrators from Louisiana State University and LSU’s Pennington Biomedical Research Center, and a host of state and national organizations of scientists and educators.”
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May 31st, 2011
Continuing controversy over Louisiana’s public school curriculum
posted by Lydia Brawner
July 7th, 2010
The right to bear arms. . . and pray. . . simultaneously
posted by Amanda KaplanThe right to bear arms and to pray are, as of last night, legally intertwined in Louisiana, as Gov. Bobby Jindal has “signed a bill into law that will allow people to bring concealed weapons into houses of worship.”
June 22nd, 2010
Louisiana prays for relief from spill
posted by Aaron WeinsteinAfter more than two months and 120 million barrels of oil, many Gulf Coast residents have lost faith in our ability to contain the BP oil spill. In the face of this terrible tragedy, the Louisiana State Senate unanimously voted to decree last Sunday, June 20th, a “Statewide Day of Prayer.”
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