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Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education

Index Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education

The Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) is an administrative policy-making body for elementary and secondary schools in the U.S. state of Louisiana. [1]

41 relations: Academic freedom, Advocacy group, Alexandria, Louisiana, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Bobby Jindal, Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, Buddy Roemer, Cecil J. Picard, Charles E. Roemer II, Charter school, Chas Roemer, Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, Climate change, Cloning, Common Core State Standards Initiative, Constitution of Louisiana, Democratic Party (United States), Edwin Edwards, Gary Jones (Louisiana politician), Gray, Louisiana, James Garvey (politician), John Bel Edwards, John White (Louisiana politician), Lafayette, Louisiana, List of Governors of Louisiana, Lottie Beebe, Louisiana, Louisiana Department of Education, Louisiana Family Forum, Louisiana Science Education Act, Metairie, Louisiana, Natchitoches, Louisiana, Paul Pastorek, Rapides Parish, Louisiana, Republican Party (United States), School voucher, Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, The Advocate (Louisiana), The Times-Picayune, Thibodaux, Louisiana, U.S. state.

Academic freedom

Academic freedom is the conviction that the freedom of inquiry by faculty members is essential to the mission of the academy as well as the principles of academia, and that scholars should have freedom to teach or communicate ideas or facts (including those that are inconvenient to external political groups or to authorities) without being targeted for repression, job loss, or imprisonment.

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Advocacy group

Advocacy groups (also known as pressure groups, lobby groups, campaign groups, interest groups, or special interest groups) use various forms of advocacy in order to influence public opinion and/or policy.

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Alexandria, Louisiana

Alexandria is the ninth-largest city in the state of Louisiana and is the parish seat of Rapides Parish, Louisiana, United States.

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Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Baton Rouge is the capital of the U.S. state of Louisiana and its second-largest city.

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Bobby Jindal

Piyush "Bobby" Jindal (born June 10, 1971) is an American politician who was the 55th Governor of Louisiana between 2008 and 2016, and previously served as a U.S. Congressman and as the vice chairman of the Republican Governors Association.

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Breaux Bridge, Louisiana

Breaux Bridge (le Pont-Breaux) is a small city in St. Martin Parish, Louisiana, United States.

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Buddy Roemer

Charles Elson "Buddy" Roemer III (born October 4, 1943) is an American politician, investor, and banker who served as the 52nd Governor of Louisiana from 1988 to 1992, and as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1981 to 1988.

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Cecil J. Picard

Cecil J. Picard (January 1, 1938 – February 15, 2007) was the appointed Louisiana state superintendent of education from 1996 until his death in 2007, which followed a 21-month fight against Lou Gehrig's disease.

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Charles E. Roemer II

Charles Elson Roemer II, also known as Charlie Roemer or Budgie Roemer (December 11, 1923 – July 7, 2012), was a farmer and businessman from Bossier City in northwestern Louisiana, who served as the commissioner of administration from 1972 to 1980 in the first two terms of Governor Edwin Washington Edwards.

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Charter school

A charter school is a school that receives government funding but operates independently of the established state school system in which it is located.

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Chas Roemer

Charles Elson Roemer, IV, known as Chas Roemer (born February 1970), is the Republican former president of the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, the 11-member state body which sets and monitors education policy.

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Claiborne Parish, Louisiana

Claiborne Parish (Paroisse de Claiborne) is a parish located in the northwestern section of the U.S. state of Louisiana.

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Climate change

Climate change is a change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns when that change lasts for an extended period of time (i.e., decades to millions of years).

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Cloning

Cloning is the process of producing genetically identical individuals of an organism either naturally or artificially.

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Common Core State Standards Initiative

The Common Core State Standards Initiative is an educational initiative from 2010 that details what K–12 students throughout the United States should know in English language arts and mathematics at the conclusion of each school grade.

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Constitution of Louisiana

The Louisiana Constitution is legally named the Constitution of the State of Louisiana and commonly called the Louisiana Constitution of 1974, and the Constitution of 1974.

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Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party (nicknamed the GOP for Grand Old Party).

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Edwin Edwards

Edwin Washington Edwards (born August 7, 1927) is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who served as the U.S. Representative for from 1965 to 1972 and as the 50th Governor of Louisiana for four terms (1972–1980, 1984–1988 and 1992–1996), twice as many elected terms as any other Louisiana chief executive.

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Gary Jones (Louisiana politician)

Gary Lee Jones (born October 1946) has been since January 2017 the president of the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, based in the capital city of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

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Gray, Louisiana

Gray is a census-designated place (CDP) in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, United States.

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James Garvey (politician)

James Donald Garvey, Jr., known as Jim Garvey (born March 1964), is a lawyer and Certified Public Accountant from Metairie in suburban Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, United States.

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John Bel Edwards

John Bel Edwards (born September 16, 1966) is an American politician and lawyer who is the 56th and current Governor of Louisiana, in office since January 11, 2016.

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John White (Louisiana politician)

John C. White (born November 1975) is the Louisiana state superintendent of education.

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Lafayette, Louisiana

Lafayette is a city in and the parish seat of Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, located along the Vermilion River in the southwestern part of the state.

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List of Governors of Louisiana

This is a list of the Governors of Louisiana (Gouverneurs de Louisiane), from acquisition by the United States in 1803 to the present day.

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Lottie Beebe

Lottie Polozola Beebe, sometimes known as Lottie Beebe-Pearson (born October 1953), is the superintendent of public schools in St. Martin Parish, Louisiana.

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Louisiana

Louisiana is a state in the southeastern region of the United States.

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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Department of Education is a state agency of Louisiana, United States.

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Louisiana Family Forum

Louisiana Family Forum (LFF) is a social conservative non-profit advocacy group based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

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Louisiana Science Education Act

The Louisiana Science Education Act, Act 473 (SB733) of 2008 is a controversial law passed by the Louisiana Legislature on June 11, 2008 and signed into law by Governor Bobby Jindal on June 25.

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Metairie, Louisiana

Metairie (French: Métairie) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, United States and is a major section of the New Orleans Metropolitan Area.

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Natchitoches, Louisiana

Natchitoches (Les Natchitoches) is a small city and the parish seat of Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, United States.

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Paul Pastorek

Paul G. Pastorek (born June 1954) is a lawyer in Loudoun County, Virginia, who was from 2007 to 2011 the Louisiana state superintendent of education, based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

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Rapides Parish, Louisiana

Rapides Parish (Paroisse des Rapides) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana.

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Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP (abbreviation for Grand Old Party), is one of the two major political parties in the United States, the other being its historic rival, the Democratic Party.

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School voucher

A school voucher, also called an education voucher, in a voucher system, is a certificate of government funding for a student at a school chosen by the student or the student's parents.

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Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana

Terrebonne Parish (French: Paroisse de Terrebonne) is a parish located in the southern part of the U.S. state of Louisiana.

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The Advocate (Louisiana)

The Advocate is Louisiana's largest daily newspaper.

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The Times-Picayune

The Times-Picayune is an American newspaper published in New Orleans, Louisiana, since January 25, 1837.

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Thibodaux, Louisiana

Thibodaux is a city in and the parish seat of Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, United States, along the banks of Bayou Lafourche in the northwestern part of the parish.

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U.S. state

A state is a constituent political entity of the United States.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Board_of_Elementary_and_Secondary_Education

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