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The Broken Record of The Education Swamp
Superintendents Have Used Same Tired Arguments Against Higher Standards For Years As the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary...
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Swamp Watch
- Nov 8
- 2 min
Superintendents Push Anti-Student Agenda To Local Chamber
Ascension Parish Chamber Sides With Education Swamp Over Business Community Last week, the Ascension Parish Chamber of Commerce curiously...
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- Nov 4
- 3 min
SLUSH FUND, Pt. 2: How Districts With Most Learning Loss Wasted ESSER Funds
The Districts Who Suffered the Most Learning Loss During COVID Are Also Wasting Their Relief Dollars Check out Part 1 of Our Series on...
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- Nov 3
- 2 min
SLUSH FUND: How Superintendents Are Using COVID Relief Money
School Districts Have Billions in COVID Relief Dollars to Invest in Recovering Learning Loss. Instead, they're using it as a slush fund....
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- Oct 28
- 2 min
Outspoken Superintendent Can't Take Heat
St. Helena Superintendent Dr. Kelli Joseph Blocks Louisiana Swamp Watch on Twitter After Being Called Out for Poor Performance,...
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- Oct 26
- 2 min
Education Swamp Silent on Student Decline
While Some Celebrated Louisiana's Improvement in 4th Grade Reading, Decline Shown In All Other Key Metrics This week, the US Department...
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- Oct 19
- 2 min
Carmouche Makes His Picks For Nov. 8 Elections
With The Newest Round of Campaign Finance Reports Out, Who is Coastal Suit Lawyer John Carmouche Supporting? As the November 8 Primary...
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- Oct 10
- 3 min
Despite Billions in Unspent Funds, School Leaders Oppose Higher Standards
Education Swamp Leaders Have Cited a Lack of Resources as a Barrier to Implementing Tougher Accountability Rules in Public Schools, Yet...
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- Sep 30
- 2 min
Carmouche Ad Hypocrisy Round-Up
Carmouche's ads tell one story- his actions don't match up Coastal lawsuit trial-lawyer John Carmouche is no stranger to showing his...
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- Sep 19
- 2 min
St. Mary Parish Not Fooled by Trial-Attorneys
St. Mary Parish Council Unanimously Rejects Carmouche's Freeport-McMoRan Settlement At last week's St. Mary Parish Council Meeting, 16th...
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- Sep 15
- 3 min
How Hard Is It to Get a State Agency's Budget?
Louisiana's Office of Financial Institutions has broad oversight powers. Good luck finding out how they're funded. Recently, we looked at...
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- Sep 7
- 2 min
Carmouche Defended Diverting Coastal Lawsuit Funds for Tax Cuts, Pay Raises
If Carmouche's coastal lawsuits are truly about fixing the coast, why does he defend using the funds on tax cuts and pay raises- not...
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- Sep 1
- 3 min
Will Carmouche's "Coastal Lawsuits" Even Help the Coast?
A Peek Into the Proposed Freeport-McMoran Settlement Raises Doubts Trial-lawyer John Carmouche's new ads are heavy on messaging about how...
Swamp Watch
- Aug 31
- 2 min
Louisiana's Least Transparent State Agency
Louisiana's Office of Financial Institutions has unusually broad exemptions from public records laws. The Louisiana Legislative Auditor...
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- Aug 26
- 2 min
Carmouche Rails Against "Washington Liberals", While Funding Their Campaigns
Trial-lawyer John Carmouche helped bring liberals to power in DC. In his new ad campaign, coastal lawsuit trial-lawyer John Carmouche,...
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- Aug 18
- 2 min
Expand First, Fund Later
Proposed Dual-Enrollment Expansion Funded by Short-Term Federal Funds. What Happens After That? Yesterday, we looked into the East Baton...
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- Aug 17
- 2 min
EBR School Board to Vote on Expanding Dual-Enrollment...After the School Year Starts
Delayed by the Board's dysfunction, will EBR School Board Expand Dual Enrollment funding after the school year already started? At...
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- Aug 15
- 2 min
Getting Rich Off Taxpayers, Carmouche Only Pretends to Care About Tax Dollars
Coastal Lawsuit Trial-Attorney John Carmouche Pretends to Care About Your Money, While Fleecing Taxpayers at Every Chance In his new ad...
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- Aug 12
- 2 min
Trial-Lawyers Take War on Jobs to TV
Carmouche and Co. Take to Airwaves to Change Public Perception of Job-Killing Coastal Lawsuits South Louisiana voters are no stranger to...
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- Aug 11
- 3 min
Education Swamp Trying to Lower the Bar for Louisiana Students
Proposals to Hold School Districts to Higher Standards Met with Stiff Opposition by Louisiana School Superintendents Fresh off another...