Welcome To The Best Of New Orleans! Bouquets & Brickbats 06 08 04 The louisiana Association of Business and Industry (LABI) has pledged $500,000 overfour for 75 percent of tuition costs of private or parochial schools for low http://www.bestofneworleans.com/dispatch/current/bouqbrix.html
Extractions: the nonprofit aimed at helping low-income women enter the workforce, held a recent career-building workshop at Loews New Orleans Hotel that drew dozens of participants. The daylong program, 'Women On The Path To New Success,' featured speakers and consultants who taught such business skills as interview techniques, personal presentation and good communication. Hibernia and H.O.P.E., a partnership of the city of New Orleans, Hibernia National Bank and the nonprofit Homeownership Opportunities for People Everywhere, recently spent $782,000 on new duplex housing in the Ninth Ward for families who qualify for Section 8 funding. The homes, at Mazant Street and North Claiborne Avenue, are part of a larger initiative to provide affordable housing to low-income families. Audubon Zoo
Extractions: School-Based Vaccination Program Program name: Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, School-Based Vaccination Program Population served: Pre-adolescents Eligibility: Fifth grade students Region served: Ten-parish area Funding: AHEC grant, Children Miracle Network., hospital contributions, Baton Rouge Health Forum, and others When did program begin?: Number of clients: Approximately 5,500 Contact: Dale Moran Bell, Program Coordinator E-mail: dbell6@lsuhsc.edu Website: None Description The School-Based Vaccination Program (SVP) provides hepatitis B vaccine to fifth grade students in 150 public, private, and parochial schools in a 10-parish area. A major thrust is to provide health education to teachers and students on the importance of vaccinations as a disease prevention strategy. Also, the concern about hepatitis B vaccine is of particular importance. The process begins with a request from participating school boards for database information on intended fifth grader students. Inasmuch as the target population consists of approximately 9,000 students, this step is very important in preparation for entering consent/refusal information after the start of the school year. Oftentimes, this process can take the entire summer to achieve. The data managers generally want this information to be as accurate as possible, and in the format that we are requesting.
NAAG.org: Louisiana Attorney General Richard P. Ieyoub (D) The louisiana Medicaid Fraud Control Unit has been nationally recognized was deliveredto all public, private and parochial schools, offering comprehensive http://www.naag.org/ag/ag_bios.php?id=27
Extractions: At issue is a New Jersey statute that subsidizes transportation for students attending parochial schools. The Supreme Court holds that the use of public funds to reimburse parents for the cost of sending children to parochial schools is not unconstitutional since bus transportation is clearly separate from the religious mission of the school. The decision is the Supreme Courts first and most comprehensive statement about the meaning of the Establishment Clause. The Supreme Court considers an Illinois state plan whereby students are given "release time" for religious instruction during the school day. The plan allows for religious teachers to come into the schools and conduct religious classes for students with permission slips. The Court finds the plan unconstitutional in that allowing religious teachers into public schools gives them a "captive audience" for state-sponsored religious instruction in violation of the Establishment Clause.
ACLU Opposes Louisiana and parochial schools. Religious schools represent 85% of the total private schoolenrollment in the United States. To our knowledge, in louisiana every school http://www.laaclu.org/News/2004/April29VoucherSchemes.htm
Extractions: ACLU Opposes Louisianas Voucher Schemes Unfair, Unaccountable and Un-American For immediate release April 29, 2004 BATON ROUGE The American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana opposes all of the school voucher schemes sometimes misleadingly referred to as school choice. They finance discrimination and force all taxpayers to support religious beliefs with which they may strongly disagree. Funds must not be diverted to vouchers that help only a few students and siphon dollars from starved public schools. As Thomas Jefferson recognized at our nations founding, a uniform system of schools that is equally open to all is essential to the preservation of a free government. Vouchers finance discrimination in education. Public schools must accept and educate all students, including those from diverse backgrounds, learning levels and abilities. Religious and private schools, on the other hand, are allowed flexibility to pick and choose which students they admit. Further, religious schools are not required to comply with many federal civil rights laws and can exclude students based on their religion, gender or learning or physical disabilities. Private schools can discriminate against special needs students. SB-220 explicitly allows nonpublic schools to limit admission of students who require special education services to the extent of the schools ability to provide such services.
Louisiana attended parochial schools that routinely require religious indoctrination as a partof the curriculum. Thats the same blueprint on the table in louisiana. http://www.laaclu.org/News/2003/April 11 Vouchers.htm
Extractions: Louisianas Voucher Schemes Unfair, Unaccountable and Un-American BATON ROUGE, April 11, 2003 The American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana opposes all of the voucher program proposals that have been introduced in the 2003 General Legislative Session. We oppose voucher schemes both because of our commitment to fairness in defending the constitutional principles afforded all persons in our state and our longstanding allegiance to the principles of a strong, secular public education. A quality public education program throughout this state and the nation provides the foundation on which we rest the security of our democracy. Vouchers chip away at that foundation and indicate the vulnerability of our government to the lobbying efforts of the private school system. Of course, first and foremost we must address the most pressing concern: the high number of defective schools and failing students, especially in Orleans parish. The ACLU recognizes the crisis and need for remedies that BESE and local school boards are proposing without resorting to vouchers. A lack of oversight and accountability at all levels within the system, inadequate funding, uncertified teachers, a high poverty rate contributing to low parental involvement, dilapidated buildings and a shortage of basic supplies and equipment have all contributed to the issue at hand. Vouchers, however, do not and will not solve those problems.
Extractions: 04/02, U.S. District Judge Ginger Berrigan issued a preliminary injunction, temporarily blocking the Louisiana Revenue and Taxation department from enforcing: · A 1996 Louisiana law that exempts all churches and synagogues from paying sales taxes on the "purchases of Bibles, song books or literature used for religious instruction classes." · A 1998 legislative amendment that grants sales tax exemptions to nonprofit religious groups who own and operate camp and retreat facilities and use the revenue for religious purposes. · Another 1998 legislative amendment that grants a sales tax exemption on all purchases made by the Catholic Church-affiliated Society of the Little Sisters of the Poor in New Orleans. "In the absence of any controverting evidence, the clear text of the challenged statutory exemptions benefits only religious (groups), which provides a purpose and effect deemed unconstitutional..." Berrigan wrote. (See item below) 06/01/00, The ACLU filed suit in federal district court to challenge the constitutionality of a Louisiana law that grants sales tax exemptions for religious purposes, such as religious camps, retreats, sales of Bibles and religious books, and a blanket sales-tax exemption for all activities of the Little Sisters of the Poor, a Roman Catholic order. Generally, the ACLU represents individuals who want to challenge a law's constitutionality. In this case, the ACLU Foundation of Louisiana is the plaintiff. The suit contends that non-religious, nonprofit groups, which are not exempt from sales taxes, in essence subsidize the religious nonprofit groups that enjoy the tax breaks, violating the First Amendment's establishment clause. (Associated Press)
State/Church Bulletin, Freethought Today, September 1997 louisiana Juvenile Court Judge Lawrence Lagarde Jr., of the New Orleans Parish teachersto offer onsite remedial help to students attending parochial schools. http://www.infidels.org/org/ffrf/fttoday/sept97/sc_bulletin.html
Extractions: The Ohio chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit in early August requesting that the state motto"With God, all things are possible"be declared unconstitutional because it promotes Christianity. The motto, adopted in 1959, paraphrases a quote from Jesus Christ found in the Gospels of Mark and Matthew. Ohio Tax Commissioner Roger Tracy, who has the motto printed on state tax forms, said: "I've been waiting for these First Amendment banana-heads to sue. In America, we believe God exists." The Capitol Square board unanimously approved a plan in December to engrave the state seal and motto outside the Statehouse. The suit seeks to block the placement of the motto on Capitol Square Plaza or any other part of the Statehouse grounds and its future use as a state motto. "While encouraging students to maintain their belief in the Bible, or in God, may be a noble aim, it cannot be one in which the public schools participate, no matter how important this goal may be its supporters," Livaudais wrote. "Section 7.3 describes the theory of evolution. The theory of evolution includes ideas about origin and development of life which have not been conclusively proven. Scientists continue to make new discoveries which change their ideas about the theory of evolution."
Baton Rouge Area Foundation - Education $188,376 Ascension Catholic Interparochial schools $50,000 Ascension $1,000 CatholicHigh School $49,631 Centenary College of louisiana $380 Chatham http://www.braf.org/page10262.cfm
Extractions: Education Through this area of interest our donors seek to improve individual learning and development from early childhood through postgraduate education. Our donors encourage the larger community to become involved in education. Through such involvement and increased public awareness, partnerships will develop to support systemic changes which will improve individual outcomes over the long term.
Louisiana Challenge -- Vol. 3, No. 1, 1998 -- Pg. 6 the Challenge Grant. Teachers from public and parochial schools inJefferson, Orleans, St. Charles, St. Bernard, St. Tammany and http://www.challenge.state.la.us/news/sp98/pg6.html
Extractions: Professional Development Opportunites Continue Director to Free-Net Board ... Navigation Bar Riverdale High School offered after school computer training to students, faculty, and the general public throughout the spring semester. Faculty members Jean Curran and Dawn Kalb conducted the sessions. The Rosedale branch of the Jefferson Parish Public Library also assisted the Riverdale High School program by advertising and promoting the classes to its users. Riverdale High School's summer program was also open to faculty, students and the general public. Throughout June participants were able to learn about the Internet, search engines and e-mail. The 1997 - 98 school year brings a new level of excitement to the Jefferson Challenge Grant Schools as faculty and students use their acquired knowledge and skills to integrate the use of technology into the curriculum. Riverdale Middle School used an 8(g) Innovative Professional Development Grant to train faculty and staff after school hours in computer and Internet usage during the spring semester. Kathy Kain, Educational Facilitator, and Betty Bordelon, Librarian, were the trainers for the sessions.
Louisiana - Tobacco Windfall Limited A sharply divided louisiana Supreme Court said Friday the state cannot give privateand parochial schools a $17.4 million share of a windfall resulting from http://news.globalink.org/168280.shtml
Extractions: Tobacco windfall limited A sharply divided Louisiana Supreme Court said Friday the state cannot give private and parochial schools a $17.4 million share of a windfall resulting from the sale of part of the state's tobacco settlement.The four-justice majority agreed with state District Judge Duke Welch of Baton Rouge, who sided last year with the East Baton Rouge and Calcasieu Parish school boards. The boards had sued the state to block dispersal of the funds to nonpublic schools.The ruling applies only to the lawsuit ab Make your choice Search by region: any Abu Dabhi Afghanistan Africa Alabama Alaska Albania Alberta Algeria Alsace American Samoa Americas Andalucía Andhra Pradesh Andorra Angola Antarctica Aquitaine Aragón Argentina Arizona Arkansas Armenia Aruba Asia Asturias Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahamas Bahrain Balkans Bangladesh Barbados Bayern Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Berlin Bermuda Bhutan Bihar Bolivia Borneo Bosnia and Herzegowina Botswana Bourgogne Brazil Bretagne British columbia Brunei Darussalam Buganda Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi California Cambodia Cameroon Canada Canarias Cape Verde Caribbean Castilla y León Castilla-La Mancha Cataluña Central America Central Europe Centre Ceuta y Melilla Champagne Chile China Colombia Colorado Comunidad Valenciana Congo Connecticut
Louisiana Cooperative Extension - Orleans 4-H Youth Development the LSU Agricultural Center, is to help people of louisiana improve their programshave been offered to Orleans public and parochial schools, community centers http://www.volunteersolutions.org/vcgno/org/1015148.html
Extractions: Last updated on March 16, 2004 The mission of the Louisiana Cooperative Extension Service, the educational branch of the LSU Agricultural Center, is to help people of Louisiana improve their lives through an educational process that uses research-based knowledge focused on issues and needs. Description: The 4-H youth development program, designed for youth ages 9-19, is based on the principles of "Learning by Doing." 4-H enables young people to learn technical facts that support their classroom curriculum and Life skills that support everyday living through a variety of projects. Youth are encouraged to learn, practice, then teach their peers about character education through a series of lessons and activities. Teens are encouraged to participate in teen leadership and service learning activities which allows them to build a foundation in life skills, job readiness skills, citizenship, and leadership. Adult and teen volunteers share their knowledge,talent,and time with youth through school, community and neighborhood clubs where young people participate in learning activities relating to science, health, safety, environment, recreation, and family living. 4-H youth development programs have been offered to Orleans public and parochial schools, community centers, and churches since 1972. Adults and teens from these various groups have been recruited and trained to lead the individual clubs under the direction of the Cooperative Extension 4-H Educator. Since 1990, the 4-H Horizon Program has collaborated with many local social service agencies and the juvenile court system to address the needs of troubled youth, teens and their parents in the areas of nutrition, health, substance abuse, conflict resolution, character education, communication, decision making, and parenting.
Policy Update: Louisiana: A First Step - Quality Counts '99 says Bob Crowley, the executive director of the louisiana Federation of of disadvantagedchildren the option of sending them to private or parochial schools. http://www.edweek.org/sreports/qc99/states/policy/la-up.htm
Extractions: (all revenue sources) or years, the public has been frustrated by a lack of adequate attention to education in Louisiana. But this year, the state is moving forward with the first stage of a long-range accountability plan designed to improve low-achieving schools. Efforts to raise standards, improve teacher pay, and hold schools and districts more accountable for student achievement were fortified with nearly $200 million in additional funding in the $2.2 billion state education budget the legislature passed last year. "We are hopeful that there are a number of factors that will allow this program to continue and to allow Louisiana to show gains in student achievement," says Leslie R. Jacobs, the state board member who headed the state's accountability commission. "National trends [in setting standards and designing accountability measures] create the right climate for this set of reforms to be successful." The first round of testing under the new system will begin this spring when 4th and 8th graders take tests linked to the state's new content standards in English/language arts and mathematics. In the fall, the state's 1,100 elementary and middle schools will be scored on how they compare with state benchmarks on those tests.
About Rapides Parish Rapides Parish is the home of three Catholic parochial schools and other privateschools. Northwestern State University and louisiana State University at http://www.agctr.lsu.edu/parish/rapides/about.htm
Extractions: Rapides Parish Parish Home Page About the Parish Agriculture Calendar ... LSU AgCenter For more information or to make comments or suggestions, contact our Webmaster About Rapides Parish Rapides Parish is located in the center of the state. Over 130,000 people live in the Alexandria/ Pineville area which forms the heart of Central Louisiana. Forestry, nurseries, cotton, soybeans, cattle, sugarcane and rice are the major agricultural commodities in Rapides Parish . The transportation needs of the area were enhanced with the opening of I-49 in May 1996. With the reuse of England Air Force Base, Central Louisiana has an international aviation center capable of handling air traffic of any size in the world. The Central Louisiana area is currently served by four major airlines. From ocean-going barges to small local boats, water transportation is thriving in Central Louisiana. Because of its prime location, rail, and interstate transportation are all easily accessible from the Port of Alexandria. Rapides Parish is the region's medical headquarters. There are four major acute care facilities in the Alexandria/Pineville area. Rapides also provides regional care in specialized facilities.
The Role Of Archbishop Joseph F that sweeping decision, Archbishop Rummel began formulating plans for the racialintegration of parochial schools. At this time, the louisiana Legislature, in http://www.loyno.edu/history/journal/1993-4/Smestad.html
Extractions: The Role of Archbishop Joseph F. Rummel in the Desegregation of Catholic Schools in New Orleans by John Smestad Jr. "We are still convinced that enforced racial discrimination inflicts incalculable mental and emotional cruelty and pain, physical and social privations, educational and economic restrictions upon 16 millions of our fellow citizens, and that these discriminations are unjustifiable violations of the Christian way of life and the principles of our American heritage" (Rummel, "Blessed" 1). These words of Most Reverend Joseph Francis Rummel, the Archbishop of New Orleans from 1935 through 1963, reflect the beliefs which guided him in directing the racialintegration of all Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of New Orleans. An historical analysis of Rummel's role in the civil rights struggle shall be made through the presentation of the background of Catholic school segregation in New Orleans, a brief biography of the man, and the events between 1953 and 1963 which led to the actual racial integration of the Catholic schools. The Background of the Struggle Desegregation in New Orleans In 1954 the United States Supreme Court handed down its decision in Brown v Board of Education. The ruling held that segregation, as espoused in the "separate but equal" doctrine of 1896, was unconstitutional. Following that sweeping decision, Archbishop Rummel began formulating plans for the racial integration of parochial schools. At this time, the Louisiana Legislature, in opposition to the Supreme Court ruling, passed laws reaffirming and requiring segregation in all schools (McCulla 63). Rummel protested these actions, but "promised that desegregation of Catholic schools would not be rushed into" (McCulla 66).
The Chamber / SWLA - Lake Charles, LA There are several private/parochial schools in the area. Charles 414 Iris StreetLake Charles, LA 70601 (337) 4397418 Home Schooling louisiana Department of http://www.chamberswla.org/region/education.cfm
Extractions: The Southwest Louisiana area school systems provide quality education at every level, from preschool centers to advanced degrees in higher education. The area's competitive and comprehensive education programs help assure that new and expanding businesses have a continuing pool of workers with the level of education and expertise required for their operations. Schools at all levels are constantly improving their general education curricula with programs specifically designed to meet employment possibilities. An emphasis is placed on the basics of mathematics, reading and language arts during the kindergarten through 5th grade level. Students from 6th through 8th grade are met with a rigorous curriculum to prepare them for high school. English, mathematics, science and social studies serve as the core curriculum. Physical education, music and art are also part of the course offerings. Exploratory courses offered include many areas in home economics and industrial arts.
ERA Moffett Realty, Inc. - Community Information Calcasieu Parish schools Private parochial schools McNeese State largest publicschool system in louisiana with an 57 public and 18 nonpublic schools. http://eramoffett.com/community/schools.html
Extractions: Area Schools Calcasieu Parish Schools McNeese State University Sowela Technical Institute Private Business Schools ... Enrollment Statistics Calcasieu Parish Schools The new school term usually starts during the last two weeks of August. Children entering kindergarden must be five years old by Sept. 30th of the school year. Children should be pre-registered at the Department of Child Welfare and Attendance, 2423 6th Street, Lake Charles, LA 70601, phone 437-1204. Necessary documents to bring at the time of registration are an official birth certificate, social security card and custody papers if appropriate, record of immunizations and two different utility bill receipts to verify residence. Transfer students must also have their most recent report cards or transcripts for placement purposes. Bus service is provided to students if they live more than a mile from their assigned school. If a student is given permission to attend a school outside his or her assigned district, they must provide their own means of transportation. Evidence of the area's scholastic aptitude is seen in state competition. For the past several years, Calcasieu schools have dominated the Louisiana Literary Rally. The average scores of those who took the National Merit tests traditionally range from 26 to 40 points higher than the national averages on both the verbal and mathematical sections. Each district's curriculum is a balanced study program aimed at preparing graduates to successfully compete in colleges and universities nation wide.
Shakespeare's Civil Comedy -- Sponsored By Centenary College Eligibility. The institute is designed for fulltime teachers, administrators,and librarians in the public, private, and parochial schools of louisiana. http://www.centenary.edu/shakespeare/
Extractions: the sudden proliferation, on the cusp of the new millennium, of films based on Shakespearean comedies? did Hamlet and Macbeth become the stuff of comedy? What do we mean when we say that Shakespeare's comedies are about civic order? How can contemporary film versions of the comedies help our students learn both about Shakespeare and about their own place in society? do modern film versions of Shakespeare's comedies illuminate our own culture? The institute looks both at Shakespeare's texts and at interpretations of these texts in contemporary film. And wherever we look, the comedies have much to say about the cultures that produce and reproduce them. Comedies, in a word, are conspicuously civic-minded: they record a culture's value system, its social aspirations, its desire for order, its frustrations when that order fails or is violated, and its techniques for shaping individual conduct. Taking comedy seriously doesn't mean ignoring its abundant humor. These plays are funny, as are the films that derive from them. They are also profoundly meaningful. The great pleasure of the comedies is that they make important ideas so delightful as they help us to see ourselves more clearly.
NOMA - Taylor Scholars Program louisiana students in public, private and parochial schools with a minimum 2.5 gradepoint average are given a oneyear membership to the Museum and they can http://www.noma.org/html_docs/taylor.html
Extractions: Hard work at school yields great rewards outside of school, thanks to a visionary program created by New Orleans oilman Patrick F. Taylor, Chairman, President, and CEO of Taylor Energy Company. Students across Louisiana in grades 7 through 12 who achieve good grades receive free memberships to the New Orleans Museum of Art as part of the Taylor/NOMA Scholars Program. As NOMA Members, Taylor/NOMA Scholars Program members receive free admission to NOMA. The Taylor/NOMA Scholars Program was established in perpetuity with a generous $300,000 endowment from the Patrick F. Taylor Foundation. Louisiana students in public, private and parochial schools with a minimum 2.5 grade point average are given a one-year membership to the Museum and they can bring one parent/guardian with them for free. Over 300,000 students have been awarded Taylor/NOMA memberships since the program started in 1997. The Patrick F. Taylor Foundation also endowed a Scholars Program at the Audubon Aquarium of the Americas and Audubon Zoo. Students in Louisiana public schools, grades 7 through 12, earn a one-year membership to Audubon Aquarium of the Americas for achieving a 2.5 grade point average, and an membership to the Audubon Zoo with a 3.0 grade point average.
Plaquemines Parish Information There are also two parochial schools in Plaquemines parish to Southern Associationof Colleges and Secondary schools and the louisiana Independent School http://www.enlou.com/parishes/plaquemines-parish.htm
Extractions: Unincorporated areas of interest in the parish include Alliance, Belair, Belle Chasse, Belvue, Benjamin Switch, Bertrandville, Bohemia, Boothville, Braithwaite, Buras, Burbridge, Burrwood, Carlisle, Cedar Grove, Dalcour, Davantto, Deer Range, Duvic, Empire, English Turn, Gloria, Greenwood, Happy Jack, Harlem,Ironton, Jesuit Bend, Junior, Linwood, Live Oak, Myrtle Grove, Naomi, Nero, Oak Point, Oakville, Ollie, Phoenix, Port Eads, Port Nickel, Port Sulphur, Promised Land, Reussite, Scarsdale, Scocola, St. Rosalie, Star, Stella, St. Leon, Sunrise, Tidewater, Triumph, Tropical Bend, Venice, Victory Switch, West Pointe a-la-Hache, Wills Point and Woodland.
