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Volunteer Noah Stupery paints a wall in the cafeteria during Saturday’s school cleanup day at Comeaux High School.
Comeaux cleanup
Court OKs plan to close Education Dept. Nearly 1,400 set for layoffs
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Volunteers wipe down walls in a classroom during a school cleanup day at Comeaux High School on Saturday. School volunteers, staff and students along with Our Saviors Church and the Rotary Club South came together to clean up, repair and beautify the school before the new school year.
Hundreds of volunteers gather to get high school ready for return of students
BY ASHLEY WHITE Staff writer
Comeaux High was bustling Saturday with volunteers beautifying and cleaning up the school before students return in August. Some of the 270 volunteers were student-athletes and many were from Our Saviors Church, a community partner that “adopted” Comeaux through the nonprofit Love Our Schools’ Community and Family Engagement model. The service day projects included replacing more than 300 ceiling tiles, installing new dry erase boards, painting the teachers’ lounge and landscaping the quad and other parts of campus. The turnout and willingness of people to dedicate their Saturday morning to getting dirty and sweaty overwhelmed Our Saviors Church Outreach Coordinator Kameron Boudreaux with joy, she said. “We’re here to help and fill the needs of the school,” she said. “We’re here to be the hands and feet of Jesus.” Their efforts highlight what CAFE
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Volunteers Cohen Waguespack and Max Flor put together a new planter during a school cleanup day at Comeaux High School on Saturday.
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is allowing President Donald Trump to put his plan to dismantle the Education Department back on track — and to go through with laying off nearly 1,400 employees. With the three liberal justices in dissent, the court on Monday paused an order from U.S. District Judge Myong Joun in Boston, who issued a preliminary injunction reversing the layoffs and calling into question the broader plan. The layoffs “will likely cripple the department,” Joun wrote. A federal appeals court refused to put the order on hold while the administration appealed. “When the The high court action Executive enables the adpublicly ministration to announces its resume work on winding down intent to break the law, and the department, one of Trump’s then executes biggest camon that paign promises. promise, it is The court did the Judiciary’s not explain its duty to decision in favor of Trump, check that as is customary lawlessness, in emergency not expedite appeals. But in it.” dissent, Justice Sonia SotomayJUSTICE SONIA or complained SOTOMAyOR that her colleagues were enabling legally questionable action on the part of the administration. “When the Executive publicly announces its intent to break the law, and then executes on that promise, it is the Judiciary’s duty to check that lawlessness, not expedite it,” Sotomayor wrote for herself and Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Elena Kagan. Education Secretary Linda McMahon said it’s a “shame” it took the Supreme Court’s intervention to let Trump’s plan move ahead. “Today, the Supreme Court again confirmed the obvious: the President of the United States, as the head of the Executive Branch, has the ultimate authority to make decisions about staffing levels, administrative organization, and day-to-day operations of federal
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National Guard facility to return to Camp Beauregard name Dating back to 1917, the name of the miliCenter will now be named for tary installation previously honored Confather of former namesake federate Gen. Pierre Gustave Toutant Be-
auregard. But the name Camp Beauregard was changed in 2023 to Training Center PinStaff writer eville, following a trend of removing references to Confederate soldiers. Now, Camp Beauregard will honor Capt. Effective Monday, the Louisiana National Guard Training Center Pineville will once Jacques Toutant Beauregard, a member of again be called Camp Beauregard at the di- the Louisiana Militia who fought in the 1815 rection of Gov. Jeff Landry, the Guard anä See NAME, page 4A nounced.
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The name of Camp Beauregard was changed in 2023 to Training Center Pineville. PHOTO PROVIDED By THE LOUISIANA NATIONAL GUARD
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