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École Pointe-au-Chien
École Pointe-au-Chien (EPAC) is a public French immersion elementary school in Pointe-aux-Chênes, an unincorporated area in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana. It has a Montegut postal address, but is not in the Montegut census-designated place. The Louisiana Legislature created the school, which is governed by a board of trustees appointed by various entities. The school teaches the French of France and Cajun French, but also "Indian French", meaning the varieties of French spoken by indigenous communities in southern coastal Louisiana. It is the first school to teach Indian French. The chief executive officer of Télé-Louisiane, Will McGrew, described it as the first such school in several categories: the first French immersion school in its parish, the first local French dialect immersion school, and the first French immersion school with a majority of students who are members of a state-recognized tribe. , McGrew is the president of the appointed board of directors that oper ...
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National Center For Education Statistics
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the principal federal agency responsible for collecting, analyzing, and reporting data on education in the United States. Established under , it operates within the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) under the United States Department of Education. NCES provides objective, relevant, timely, and methodologically rigorous education statistics covering preschool, elementary, secondary, and postsecondary education, ensuring data are free of bias, nonideological, and independent of partisan influence. NCES oversees national and international assessments, conducts longitudinal studies, and develops standardized data systems to support policymakers, researchers, educators, and the public. It also provides technical support to state education agencies and local districts to improve data collection and reporting. As part of its mandate, NCES disseminates education data through key publications such as The Condition of Education, ...
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KRVS
KRVS (88.7 FM) is an American radio station broadcasting a public radio format. Licensed to Lafayette, Louisiana, United States, it is currently owned by the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and features programming from American Public Media, NPR and Public Radio International. Programming covers various types of music of Louisiana such as Cajun music, zydeco, blues, jazz, swamp pop, swamp rock and other Louisiana singer/songwriter music. KRVS also broadcasts the annual Festival International de Louisiane. The station also carries news and music programming in Louisiana French. History The station began broadcasting in May 1963 and was officially licensed on August 8, 1963, to operate a power of 10 watts and a coverage area of about six city blocks. The station initially operated on FM at with an AM carrier current simulcast on . In 1979, the station increased its FM transmission power to 3 kilowatts and shifted to . In November 1982, the station again increased its tra ...
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Bourg, Louisiana
Bourg is a census-designated places in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is part of the Houma– Bayou Cane– Thibodaux Metropolitan Statistical Area. Demographics Government and infrastructure The United States Postal Service operates the Bourg Post Office within the Presquille CDP. Education Terrebonne Parish School District operates public schools in the entire parish. Schools with Bourg addresses include Bourg Elementary School (PK-4) and South Terrebonne High School (9–12). Terrebonne Parish Library System formerly operated the Bourg Branch. Due to damage from Hurricane Ida Hurricane Ida was a deadly and extremely destructive tropical cyclone in 2021 that became the second-most damaging and intense hurricane to make landfall in the U.S. state of Louisiana on record, behind Hurricane Katrina in 2005. In terms of m ..., the library permanently closed. Another library was to be built in an area near Bourg. The initial location of the non ...
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Governor Of Louisiana
The governor of Louisiana (; ) is the chief executive of the U.S. state government of Louisiana. The governor also serves as the commander in chief of the Louisiana National Guard. Republican Jeff Landry has held the office since January 8, 2024. History Louisiana ratified its first constitution in 1812. The document provided for a governor who would serve a four-year term and was responsible for appointing all non-elected state officials, making the holder of the office one of the most powerful such executives in the United States at the time. Candidates for the office were limited to white men of at least 35 years of age who held at least $5,000 worth in landed property. Popular gubernatorial elections were held, but the Louisiana State Legislature was given the responsibility of deciding the winner from among the two top-performing candidates. Governors were forbidden from holding consecutive terms. William C. C. Claiborne served as the state's first governor. The 184 ...
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John Bel Edwards
John Bel Edwards (born September 16, 1966) is an American politician, attorney, and Army veteran who served as the 56th governor of Louisiana from 2016 to 2024. A Southern Democrat, he previously served in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 2008 to 2015. Edwards represented parts of the Florida Parishes and served as minority leader from 2012 to 2015. Edwards graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1988 with a Bachelor of Science in engineering and served in the United States Army as an infantry officer for eight years. In 1996, he was honorably discharged with the rank of Captain. After leaving the Army, Edwards attended and graduated from LSU Law. Following his tenure as a law clerk to Judge James L. Dennis, he returned home to Amite and began his career as a lawyer in private practice. First elected to the Louisiana House in 2007, Edwards became Democratic minority leader in 2012. He defeated Republican U.S. Senator David Vitter in the second roun ...
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Louisiana House Of Representatives
The Louisiana House of Representatives (; ) is the lower house in the Louisiana State Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Louisiana. This chamber is composed of 105 representatives, each of whom represents approximately 42,500 people (2000 figures). Members serve four-year terms with a term limit of three terms (twelve years). The House is one of the five state legislative lower houses that has a four-year term, as opposed to the near-universal two-year term. The House convenes at the State Capitol in Baton Rouge. Leadership The Speaker of the House presides over the House of Representatives. The speaker is customarily recommended by the governor (although this is not in House rules), then elected by the full House. In addition to presiding over the body, the speaker is also the chief leadership position, and controls the flow of legislation and committee assignments. The Louisiana House of Representatives also elects a speaker pro tempore to preside i ...
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WRKF
WRKF (89.3 MHz) is a non-commercial public FM radio station in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It is owned and operated by Public Radio, Inc., with studios and offices on Valley Creek Drive in Baton Rouge. WRKF is listener-supported, with periodic on-air fundraisers. WRKF has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 28,000 watts. The transmitter is off River Road in Baton Rouge, near the Mississippi River. WRKF broadcasts using HD Radio technology. It airs classical music from Classical 24 on its HD-2 digital subchannel. Programming WRKF is a member of National Public Radio. It carries NPR and other public radio news and information shows around the clock except for a few musical programs on Saturday and Sunday evenings. Weekdays, it produces two local shows, ''Talk Louisiana'' with Jim Engster, an interview and call-in show, airing at 9 a.m. and repeated at 9 p.m. weekdays. There's also a half hour news magazine shared with WWNO New Orleans, ''Louisiana Things Considered'' heard a ...
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Houma, Louisiana
Houma ( ) is the largest city in and the parish seat of Terrebonne Parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is also the largest principal city of the Houma– Bayou Cane– Thibodaux metropolitan statistical area. The city's government was absorbed by the parish in 1984, which currently operates as the Terrebonne Parish Consolidated Government. The population was 33,727 at the 2010 census, an increase of 1,334 over the 2000 census tabulation of 32,393. In 2020, the population estimates program determined 32,467 people lived in the city. At the 2020 census, its population rebounded to 33,406. Many unincorporated areas are adjacent to the city of Houma. The largest, Bayou Cane, is an urbanized area commonly referred to by locals as being part of Houma, but it is not included in the city's census counts, and is a separate census-designated place. If the populations of the urbanized census-designated places were included with that of the city of Houma, the total wou ...
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Republican Party (United States)
The Republican Party, also known as the Grand Old Party (GOP), is a Right-wing politics, right-wing political parties in the United States, political party in the United States. One of the Two-party system, two major parties, it emerged as the main rival of the then-dominant Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party in the 1850s, and the two parties have dominated American politics since then. The Republican Party was founded in 1854 by anti-slavery activists opposing the Kansas–Nebraska Act and the expansion of slavery in the United States, slavery into U.S. territories. It rapidly gained support in the Northern United States, North, drawing in former Whig Party (United States), Whigs and Free Soil Party, Free Soilers. Abraham Lincoln's 1860 United States presidential election, election in 1860 led to the secession of Southern states and the outbreak of the American Civil War. Under Lincoln and a Republican-controlled Congress, the party led efforts to preserve th ...
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Tanner Magee
Tanner Daniel Magee (born July 1980) is a criminal defense lawyer from downtown Houma in Terrebonne Parish in south Louisiana, who is served as a Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 53. On January 11, 2016, he succeeded fellow Republican Lenar Whitney, whom he unseated in the runoff election held on November 21, 2015. He was re-elected in the primaries on October 12, 2019, having no challengers. On January 13, 2020 he became Speaker pro tempore of the Louisiana House of Representatives, a position he held until 2024. Political career In the primary election held on October 24, 2015, Magee led Lenar Whitney by nine votes, 3,073 (34.35 percent) to her 3,064 (34.25 percent). The lone Democratic candidate, Brenda Leroux Babin, polled the remaining but critical 2,809 ballots (31.4 percent). In the second round of balloting in conjunction with the victory of the Democrat John Bel Edwards as governor over United States Senator David Vitter, Magee ...
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WWNO
WWNO (89.9 FM broadcasting, FM) is a public radio, public, non-commercial radio, commercial radio station in New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana. It is owned by the University of New Orleans, offering a news and information radio format with some jazz programs on weekends. Studios and offices are located on the fourth floor of the UNO library. The transmitter is off Behrman Highway in the Algiers, New Orleans, Algiers neighborhood of New Orleans. WWNO also operates a 24-hour classical music service, "Classical 104.9 FM", on 250 watt FM translator K285FF in Metarie, Louisiana, Metarie and simulcast in Thibodaux, Louisiana, on KTLN at 90.5 MHz, one of the few dedicated classical stations in the Southern United States, South. WWNO broadcasts in the HD Radio hybrid format. Its HD2 subchannel carries "Classical 104.9 FM". The HD3 subchannel plays jazz music. Programming WWNO's weekday schedule has several programs from National Public Radio including ''All Things Considere ...
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Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribe
Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribe is a state-recognized tribe and nonprofit organization in Louisiana. It is headquartered in Montegut, Louisiana. It is active in Terrebonne and Lafourche Parishes. Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribe (PACIT) identify as descendants of the Acolapissa, Atakapa, Biloxi, Chitimacha, and Choctaw peoples. The organization formerly identified as descending from the Houma people since at least 1907 to 1993. The group has approximately 800 members. History The Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribe and the Bayou Lafourche Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha Confederation of Muskogees broke away from the United Houma Nation in the 1990s. All three are state-recognized tribes today in Louisiana. Nonprofit organization The Pointe Au Chien Indian Tribe organized as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in Montegut, Louisiana. Its tax-exempt status was temporarily revoked in 2023 but has been restored by 2024. Its principal officer is Melissa Verdin. Its total assets were $517,2 ...
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