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Storm’s remnants soak N.O. region
Plan to cut school budgets blocked Landry can’t reduce funding to pay teacher stipends, judge rules
BY PATRICK WALL Staff writer
STAFF PHOTO By SOPHIA GERMER
Debris from a trailer is strewn Thursday amid a neighboring structure it smashed into after a possible tornado touched down in Avondale as Tropical Storm Arthur passed through the region.
Widespread flooding reported, tornadoes cause damage BY MIKE SMITH, MICHELLE HUNTER and LARA NICHOLSON Staff writers
The remnants of Tropical Storm Arthur swept through southeast Louisiana early Thursday with torrential rains and tornado strikes, causing flooding in parts of the New Orleans metro area, injuring at least two people and leaving thousands without power. While Arthur did not remain a tropical storm for long after moving ashore in Texas on Wednesday, its sprawling bands and severe weather lingered and raked across a
ä Seven New Orleans drainage stations lose power. PAGE 1B broad swath of the region. Canals were overtopped in Kenner while street flooding occurred in other areas of Jefferson Parish as well as in St. Charles. Trees were downed throughout the area and more than 20,000 people were without power in New Orleans and Jefferson Parish by 6:45 a.m., though that number dwindled
STAFF PHOTO By DAVID GRUNFELD
A stalled SUV is pushed out of high water on Thursday on ä See ARTHUR, page 8A Loyola Drive in Kenner during Tropical Storm Arthur.
In Jeff Parish, residents endure tense night about what to do next after 2 injured sandbags had been piled by door. in Avondale by theThen the phone disconnectsuspected tornado ed.When she called back, Hill’s
BY LARA NICHOLSON and MICHELLE HUNTER
STAFF PHOTO By SOPHIA GERMER
Debris from a neighboring trailer sits in the living room of a home after a possible tornado touched down Thursday in Avondale.
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sister was screaming. “It’s falling on me!” Hills heard on the phone. Staff writers Family found her sister’s As Tropical Storm Arthur modular home destroyed — rolled through the New Or- possible tornado winds had leans area overnight Wednes- picked up a nearby mobile day, Kesha Hills woke up at home and thrown it into her about 3 a.m. to monitor the modular home. They moved debris until weather with her mother in they found Hill’s sister, pinned their Avondale home. At 5:20 a.m., Hills called her ä See DAMAGE, page 8A sister, who lives next door,
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A Louisiana judge halted Gov. Jeff Landry’s plan to pay for teacher stipends by cutting public school funding by nearly $170 million after advocates filed a lawsuit Thursday arguing that Landry lacks the legal authority to order the cut. Judge Richard “Chip” Moore of the 19th Judicial District Court in Baton Rouge granted the plaintiffs’ request for a temporary re- Landry straining order to stop the governor from enacting his executive order, which calls for a $168 million reduction in state education funding this school year to pay for $2,000 stipends for teachers and $1,000 for school support staff. The 11-day restraining order also forbids Landry from continuing to collect ballots from the Legislature, two-thirds of which must approve his plan for it to take effect. The court-ordered delay is likely to push the vote past the deadline for the governor to veto budget items. Some lawmakers have expressed concern that Landry could slash funding for projects in their districts if they opposed his plan, according to people who have spoken with them. The lawsuit argues that Landry overstepped his constitutional authority by effectively reallocating education funds, which the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education controls under Louisiana’s constitution. It also says Landry circumvented the proper legal procedure by issuing the order on June 2, a day after the legislative session ended, and asking lawmakers to vote remotely without a public hearing or debate. “The Executive Order is a glaring abuse of executive power in violation of the state constitution,” says the June 18 petition. If the cut is allowed to proceed, the petition adds, it will cause “irreparable harm” to the state’s public schools, and “will eliminate funding for programs and staff of the schools that has already been appropriated.”
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