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3:17 PM, Apr 5, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPERGovernor Bobby Jindal brings hope and change to the education system in Louisiana. The AP reports:
"The Louisiana House has given final passage to Gov. Bobby Jindal's proposal to make it tougher for teachers to reach the job protection known as tenure and to do away with the statewide pay scale for teachers.
"Approval of minor Senate changes in a 60-43 vote, gave Jindal a significant victory early in the three-month legislative session, over strong opposition from the teacher unions and several thousand teachers who protested at the Capitol in recent weeks.
"The House also is planning to vote on Jindal's other key education initiative, a measure to establish a statewide voucher program for private school tuition, make it easier to create charter schools and expand online schools.
"The Senate approved both measures Wednesday."
4:08 PM, Mar 13, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPERLouisiana governor Bobby Jindal is moving ahead with education reform--but it isn't without controversy.
Read more... 5:07 PM, Feb 29, 2012 • By JOY PULLMANNIn the weeks between announcing the nation’s farthest-reaching education agenda and its reception in the Louisiana legislature upon opening March 12, Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal has departed from his usual consensus-building to take on teacher unions.
Read more... 8:35 AM, Feb 17, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPERA judge that President Obama nominated for a district court bench “has thrown out a Louisiana law that bans certain sex offenders from Facebook and other social networking sites,” WDSU reports. “U.S. District Judge Brian Jackson ruled Thursday that the prohibition—which took effect in August—was too broad and infringed on constitutionally protected speech.”
Read more... 7:18 PM, Jan 25, 2012 • By JONATHAN V. LASTDrudge has a story about Obama getting off of Air Force One in Arizona, greeting Republican governor Jan Brewer, and immediately giving her a piece of his mind. Evidently our president did not appreciate something Brewer wrote about him. According to the pool report, they had a testy exchange from which the president walked away as Brewer was still speaking.
Read more... 1:11 PM, Jan 23, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPERRoss Douthat, writing on the New York Times’s website, has a must-read article on the Republican presidential field and the desirability—and even possibility!—of a new entry. “For months now, even as the rest of the conservative commentariat has gradually resigned itself to the existing presidential field, the Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol has continued to pine — publicly, unstintingly, immune to either embarrassment or fatigue— for another candidate to jump into the race,” Douthat writes.
Read more... 1:31 PM, Oct 25, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPERThis morning, in reference to the Republican presidential primary, the boss commented: "The race seems to be more open and fluid than conventional wisdom has it." The boss also noted, according to the latest CBS/New York Times poll, "81 percent of GOP primary voters [are] in play." Considering that the first caucus/primary is only
Read more... 4:32 PM, Oct 23, 2011 • By MICHAEL WARRENIncumbent Republican governor Bobby Jindal was reelected yesterday in Louisiana's blanket primary election. Jindal, who received 65 percent of the vote against 9 other opponents, won a clear majority and therefore will not face a runoff. Jindal carried all 64 parishes and made big gains in Cajun country.
Read more... 3:33 PM, Sep 12, 2011 • By MARK HEMINGWAYHot on the heels of this morning's announcement of former Minnesota governor and former presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty's endorsement of Mitt Romney, the Perry campaign pulls out the stops to make sure they don't get one-upped ahead of tonight's debate:
Read more... 12:50 PM, Jun 29, 2010 • By MARY KATHARINE HAMJoe Biden is in the Gulf today, and Bobby Jindal talked to NBC about his problems with federal response:
As he waited for Biden to arrive, Jindal -- in an exclusive on-camera interview with NBC News this morning -- said his message to the vice president is that the federal government "needs a greater sense of urgency" and that it needs to treat the disaster "like a war and either lead or get out of the way."
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