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Court OKs plan to close Education Dept. Nearly 1,400 employees expected to be laid off
BY MARK SHERMAN Associated Press
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 adminis-
tration appealed. The high court action enables the administration to resume work on winding down the department, one of Trump’s biggest campaign promises. In a post Monday night on his social media platform, Trump said the high court “has handed a Major Victory to Parents and Students
across the Country.” He said the decision will allow his administration to begin the “very important process” of returning many of the department’s functions “BACK TO THE STATES.” The court did not explain its decision in favor of Trump, as is customary in emergency appeals. But in dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor complained that her colleagues were enabling legally questionable action on the part of the adminis-
tration. “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
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Camp Beauregard name returning to facility
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The name of Camp Beauregard was changed in 2023 to Training Center Pineville.
National Guard training center will now be named for father of former namesake BY ALYSE PFEIL
Staff writer
Effective Monday, the Louisiana National Guard Training Center Pineville will once again be called Camp Beauregard at the direction of Gov. Jeff Landry, the Guard announced. Dating back to 1917, the name of the military installation previously honored Confederate Gen. Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard. But the name Camp Beauregard was changed in 2023 to Training Center Pineville, following a trend of removing references to Confederate soldiers.
Now, Camp Beauregard will honor Capt. Jacques Toutant Beauregard, a member of the Louisiana Militia who fought in the 1815 Battle of New Orleans, the National Guard said. The name change is in line with federal military installations that are returning to “known names” and is being undertaken at the direction of Landry, the Guard’s commander in chief, said National Guard spokesperson Lt. Col. Noel Collins. Last month, the administration of President Donald Trump returned seven Army bases to their original names after they had been changed in 2023 to avoid
honoring Confederate leaders. In a social media post Monday morning, Landry lauded the change with a photo of tombstone inscribed with the term “wokeism.” “Let this be a lesson that we should always give reverence to history and not be quick to so easily condemn or erase the dead, lest we and our times be judged arbitrary by future generations,” Landry’s post stated. Asked if the revival of the Camp Beauregard name is meant to acknowledge P.G.T. Beauregard and how the name change fights “wokeism,” Landry spokesperson Kate Kelly responded by
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Baker schools shift locations
Fatty liver drug shows promise in Tulane study Treatment could clear cells that set stage for disease
noting that Jacques Toutant Beauregard is the father of P.G.T. Beauregard. P.G.T. Beauregard was a prominent Confederate general, commanding the troops who opened fire on Fort Sumter at the outset of the Civil War. After the war was over, however, he was part of a coalition that unsuccessfully tried to integrate Black and White Louisianans. Landry’s approach of returning the Pineville installation to a previous name but recognizing an alternative service member with the same last name mirrors the approach the Trump
Fall to bring all-charter system BY CHARLES LUSSIER Staff writer
Fatty liver disease affects more than a third of adults in the United States, a silent epidemic closely tied to obesity and diabetes. In Louisiana, where both conditions are more common than the national average, doctors suspect the disease is even more widespread, often going undetected until it becomes life-threatening. Scientists from Tulane University are part of a multiuniversity team exploring a potential new treatment that could stop the disease before it turns deadly. In a study published earlier this year in
A yard sign popped up earlier this month in front of Bethany Church’s Baker campus announcing the arrival of a new school: “Come Home to Baker: Park Ridge! Now Enrolling.” Less than 2 miles north, Bethany’s previous tenant erected a sign of its own in front of the closed White Hills Elementary: “New Home of GEO Prep Baker.” The changes of address for Park Ridge Elementary and GEO Prep Baker come just weeks before the start of the 2025-26 school year. They are the latest developments in the unusual school war that has engulfed this small suburban city of PROVIDED PHOTO 12,000 residents north of Baton Rouge. In just over a decade, Baker has gone from havThe new tenants at Bethany Church’s Baker campus posted signs on July 7 proclaiming the arrival of a new school, Park Ridge Achievement Academy. Park ing five traditional public schools to five charter schools. Charters are public schools run privately
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Ridge is replacing another charter school, GEO Prep Baker, that spent the past three years at Bethany.
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