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You’re listening to Red River Radio News.
Good morning, I’m Jeff Ferrell.
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Thousands of students in Texas schools are still getting paddled, according to the latest federal data.
The state ranks 5th in the country for the number of corporal punishments given out, as KERA’s Dylan Duke reports:
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“The latest federal data shows there were over eleven-thousand instances of paddling in Texas schools during the 2021 school year. The American Psychological Association has denounced corporal punishment in schools since at least 2008. 31-year-old Greg Hooper told KERA about his experience getting paddled in Alvarado High School when he attended. [HOOPER: “It makes me as a human being feel belittled or ostracized or less of a human, that's what it felt like.”] Most school districts have banned the practice. About six percent of Texas schools make up for the over 11,000 instances of corporal punishment.”
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15 states still allow corporal punishment, largely in the South, including those in the 4-state region.
Arkansas ranks second highest in the nation for the use of corporal punishment in schools, according to the federal data.
In Louisiana, mandatory written permission from parents is required.
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In Campaign coverage this morning, Louisiana’s congressional candidates have raised $74 million this election cycle.
LaPolitics.com publisher Jeremy Alford says that’s a record-breaking number.
And he says almost 80% of that cash is pouring in from outside the state:
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“People maybe don’t know how to peel crawfish, maybe can’t find Grand Isle on a map, but they can cut a check and find our congressional members.”
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Alford says there are several reasons for the high campaign costs, including candidates loaning themselves money at a record rate.
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Economist Loren Scott is touting immigration enforcement as a source of employment in central Louisiana.
This as the latest insight in Scott's Economic Forecast tour of Louisiana.
He says an Alexandria facility, housing families who are self-deporting, will create 240 jobs.a separate staging facility is expected to hire another 50:
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“There are a huge number of planes out of there every day that are taking people back to their countries.”
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Scott says a data center in Rapides Parish will contribute much of central Louisiana's projected job growth.
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Researchers at the University of Arkansas are studying how micro-organisms respond to stress.
As Little Rock Public Radio reports, U-of-A researcher Jeff Lewis says the goal is to study stress response on a cellular level.
Lewis says his organism of choice for the research is brewer’s yeast.
That’s largely because it provides a good analog for human cells:
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“Yeast is a really easy genetic model so we can, if you can imagine a genetic manipulation you can do it. And that’s not something obviously that you can do with humans. And even with human cells, it can be challenging to do some of the genetic experiments. So, even if you pull cells out of a, you know, body and try to manipulate them, yeast is a much easier organism to work with.”
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The university received a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to fund the research.
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The National Weather Service in Shreveport is calling for:
- A 20% chance of afternoon showers and thunderstorms and mostly cloudy, before gradually clearing with a high near 92.. and a heat index as high as 102 degrees.
- Tomorrow: the high edges up to 93,
- then 91 Thursday, and
- dropping to 86 by Friday, under sunny skies forecast to stick around for days.
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