CenLamar | Est. 2006

  • Unfunded, Unaccountable, and Unconstitutional: John White’s Scheme to Push Louisiana’s Voucher Program

    Less than three months after Judge Tim Kelley ruled that Louisiana’s school voucher program was unconstitutionally funded and only a month before oral arguments begin in the Louisiana State Supreme Court, Superintendent of Education John White announced that his Department had added nineteen additional schools to the program and was now accepting applications for next year. Consider this: Last year, John White and the Department of Education waited until mid-summer before opening up the application process for the controversial program. By green-lighting applications now, Superintendent White is cynically and unabashedly attempting to pressure the Louisiana State Supreme Court, the Louisiana…

  • Bobby Jindal’s Catastrophic Negligence: Coastal Restoration Funds Squandered

    A few years ago, the good people who conduct the U.S. Geological survey realized that the most powerful and effective way to describe the destruction of the Louisiana coastline was to put it in a language that we all understand: Football. Right now, in Louisiana, we lose an entire football field every hour due to coastal erosion. The destruction of the Louisiana coast and marshlands is, without question, the single largest existential threat to the state’s economy, culture, habitat, and environment. And it’s made all the more insidious because this destruction is gradual (to mix environmental metaphors, you could also…

  • Louisiana College Divinity School Student: President Joe Aguillard Is Targeting and Persecuting Professors Over Calvinism

    Joe Aguillard, the controversial and outspoken President of Louisiana College, may have finally bitten off more than he can chew. And no, this has nothing to do with eating worms. Recently, Aguillard revealed that he would not be renewing the contracts of three divinity professors, Dr. Jason Hiles, Dr. Kevin McFadden, and Dr. Ryan Lister, effectively firing them from the school. According to Joshua Breland, a Louisiana College graduate and a current student at Louisiana College’s Caskey School of Divinity, these three professors are being “targeted and persecuted” by LC President Joe Aguillard not for anything they have taught or…