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Baton Rouge Prepares Pre-Schoolers for Reading with Tablets
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation is donating tablet computers, books and educational toys to 50 families in public housing in hopes of better preparing low-income students for grade school. by Charles Lussier, The Advocate, Baton Rouge, La. / February 16, 2021 (AP/Matt Rourke)
(TNS) Starting next month, 50 families in public housing in Baton Rouge with preschool-age children are receiving tablet computers, books and educational toys, followed by regular virtual and in-person home visits from education coaches who will help to get their children ready for kindergarten.
It s a modest start to a program that its backers hope will eventually go statewide. It s meant to narrow both the achievement gap and digital divide between low-income students and their more affluent peers.
Louisiana Educators Want Governor to Elevate Vaccine Priority
More and more Louisiana residents are getting vaccinated against COVID-19 every day. While that is good news on the virus mitigation there are concerns over who is getting the first jabs. I think we are all in agreement that frontline healthcare workers should have a top priority. But after that, the priority rankings leave a lot to be desired.
Larry Carter, President of the Louisiana Federation of Teachers, believes that educators should be ranked at a much higher priority than they are now. Carter along with State Senator Cleo Fields has written Governor John Bel Edwards asking that Louisiana take a page from other state s vaccination protocols and move teachers up in the pecking order.
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BATON ROUGE - Just one day after Governor John Bel Edwards announced the state s plans to expand the pool of those eligible to receive a COVID-19 vaccination, Senator Cleo Fields is lobbying to have educators immediately added.