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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]

80 relations: Alexandria, Louisiana, Bastrop, Louisiana, Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, Caddo Public Schools (Louisiana), Cecil J. Picard, Charles E. Roemer II, Chas Roemer, Claiborne Parish School Board, Constitution of Louisiana, Darrell Ourso, DeSoto Parish School Board, Dorothy Garrett Smith, Educate Now, Edward S. Bopp, Enoch T. Nix, Eric LaFleur, False River Academy, Forrest Dunn, Gary Jones (Louisiana politician), Hall Lyons, Homer, Louisiana, J. Kelly Nix, James Garvey (politician), Jane H. Smith, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, Jesse Bankston, Jesuit High School (New Orleans), Jim Walton, Joe R. Salter, Joe Waggonner, John McDonogh High School, John White (Louisiana politician), Leon Gary, Leslie Jacobs, Lillian Walker (politician), List of Louisiana State University alumni, List of Louisiana Tech University people, List of Loyola University New Orleans people, List of people from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, List of people from Louisiana, List of people from Monroe, Louisiana, List of people from Washington (state), List of United States political families (B), List of United States political families (R), List of United States political families (S), List of University of Louisiana at Monroe alumni, Lottie Beebe, Louisiana Department of Education, Louisiana Science Education Act, Louisiana State University Shreveport, ..., Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, Mansfield, Louisiana, Mary Johnson Harris, Melville, Louisiana, Metairie, Louisiana, Mike Foster (American politician), Miller-McCoy Academy, Minimum Foundation Program, New Orleans, Orleans Parish School Board, Paul Pastorek, Rapides Parish School Board, Recovery School District, Republican Party of Louisiana, Sharon Hewitt, Springhill, Louisiana, St. Martin Parish School Board, St. Martin Parish, Louisiana, Taylor Townsend (politician), Timmy Teepell, United States House of Representatives elections in Louisiana, 2014, United States Senate election in Louisiana, 2014, United States Senate election in Louisiana, 2016, United Teachers of New Orleans, W. E. Whetstone, Walter C. Lee, Walter Lee (Louisiana politician), Webster Parish School Board, When the Levees Broke, Zack Kopplin. Expand index (30 more) »

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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Bastrop, Louisiana

Bastrop is the largest city and the parish seat of Morehouse Parish, Louisiana, United States.

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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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Caddo Public Schools (Louisiana)

Caddo Public Schools is a school district based in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States.

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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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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 School Board

Claiborne Parish School Board is a school district headquartered in Homer, Louisiana, United States.

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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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Darrell Ourso

Darrell Paul Ourso (born April 1964) is a financial advisor from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who is a Republican departing short-term member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 66 in the southeastern portion of East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana.

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DeSoto Parish School Board

DeSoto Parish School Board is a school district headquartered in Mansfield, Louisiana, United States.

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Dorothy Garrett Smith

Dorothy Garrett Smith (c. 1932 – August 8, 1990) was the first woman to have served as president of the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, which establishes and monitors education policy.

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Educate Now

Educate Now is a non-profit education reform organization founded in 2008 and based in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Edward S. Bopp

Edward Sidney Bopp, Jr., known as Eddie Bopp (November 28, 1930 – September 16, 2015), was a pharmacist and lawyer from his native New Orleans, Louisiana, who served from 1977 to 1984 as a Democrat in the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 103 encompassing part of Orleans and St. Bernard parishes.

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Enoch T. Nix

Enoch Talton Nix (May 2, 1920 – December 13, 2001) was a banker and civic figure from Bossier City, Louisiana, who served for thirty years on the elected Louisiana State Board of Education and its successor organization established under the Louisiana State Constitution of 1974, the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education.

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Eric LaFleur

Eric LaFleur (born March 28, 1964, in Ville Platte, Louisiana) is an attorney and politician, a Democratic member of the Louisiana State Senate.

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False River Academy

False River Academy (commonly False River, or FRA) is a nonsectarian private school located in New Roads, Louisiana in Pointe Coupee Parish.

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Forrest Dunn

George Forrest Dunn Jr., known as Forrest Dunn (September 6, 1928 – October 15, 2016), was the administrator of the Louisiana State Exhibit Museum in Shreveport, Louisiana, and a politician.

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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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Hall Lyons

Hall McCord Lyons (December 22, 1923 – July 22, 1998) was an oilman who worked during the 1960s to establish a competitive Republican Party (GOP) in his native U.S. state of Louisiana.

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Homer, Louisiana

Homer is a town in and the parish seat of Claiborne Parish in northern Louisiana, United States.

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J. Kelly Nix

James Kelly Nix (born October 6, 1934) is a businessman in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who was from 1976 to 1984 the Louisiana Superintendent of Education, then an elected position.

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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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Jane H. Smith

Jane Holland Smith (born January 21, 1948) is a retired educator and a Republican former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 8 in Bossier Parish in northwestern Louisiana.

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Jefferson Parish, Louisiana

Jefferson Parish (French: Paroisse de Jefferson) is a parish in the state of Louisiana.

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Jesse Bankston

Jesse Homer Bankston Sr. (October 7, 1907 – November 25, 2010) was a politician within the Democratic Party of Louisiana, a businessman, and, at his death at the age of 103, a member of the board of Louisiana Public Broadcasting.

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Jesuit High School (New Orleans)

Jesuit High School is an all-male, college-preparatory, Catholic high school in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Jim Walton

James Carr Walton (born June 7, 1948) is the youngest son of Sam Walton, the founder of the world's largest retailer, Walmart.

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Joe R. Salter

Joe Reece Salter (born August 13, 1943) is the director of governmental affairs of the Louisiana State Department of Education and a Democratic former Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives.

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Joe Waggonner

Joseph David Waggonner Jr. (September 7, 1918 – October 7, 2007), better known as Joe D. Waggonner, was a Democratic U.S. Representative from Bossier Parish, Louisiana, who represented Louisiana's 4th congressional district from December 1961 until January 1979.

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John McDonogh High School

John McDonogh Senior High School (nicknamed John Mac) is a public high school in the Mid-City neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.

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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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Leon Gary

Leon J. Gary, Sr. (July 27, 1912 – December 5, 2000), was a Democratic politician who served from 1946 to 1962 as the mayor of Houma, the seat of government for Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana.

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Leslie Jacobs

Leslie Rosenthal Jacobs (born 1959, New Orleans, Louisiana) is an award-winning education reform advocate, business executive and philanthropist.

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Lillian Walker (politician)

Lillian Walker Walker, known as Lillian W. Walker (May 8, 1923 – December 22, 2016), was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, who served two terms from 1964 to 1972, corresponding with the administration of Governor John J. McKeithen, her fellow Democrat.

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List of Louisiana State University alumni

The following is a list of alumni of Louisiana State University.

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List of Louisiana Tech University people

The following is a list of notable people associated with Louisiana Tech University, in the American city of Ruston, Louisiana.

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List of Loyola University New Orleans people

Many notable politicians, entertainers, and figures in United States history are alumni of Loyola University in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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List of people from Baton Rouge, Louisiana

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List of people from Louisiana

The following are notable people who were either born, raised, or have lived for a significant period of time in the American state of Louisiana.

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List of people from Monroe, Louisiana

, whether born, raised, or residing.

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List of people from Washington (state)

The following is a list of notable people from Washington – people who were born in, or raised in the U.S. state of Washington, live(d) in Washington, or are strongly associated/have significant relations with the state.

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List of United States political families (B)

The following is an alphabetical list of political families in the United States whose last name begins with B. NOTE: Info may be incomplete.

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List of United States political families (R)

The following is an alphabetical list of political families in the United States whose last name begins with R.

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List of United States political families (S)

The following is an alphabetical list of political families in the United States whose last name begins with S.

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List of University of Louisiana at Monroe alumni

This is a list of notable people who have attended University of Louisiana at Monroe.

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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 Department of Education

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

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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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Louisiana State University Shreveport

Louisiana State University Shreveport (LSU Shreveport or LSUS) is a branch institution of the Louisiana State University System located in Shreveport, Louisiana, and is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.

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Loyola University New Orleans College of Law

Loyola University New Orleans College of Law is a private law school in New Orleans, Louisiana affiliated with Loyola University New Orleans.

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Mansfield, Louisiana

Mansfield is a small city in and the parish seat of DeSoto Parish, Louisiana, United States.

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Mary Johnson Harris

Mary Eleanor Johnson Harris (born September 1963) is a Republican former short-term member of the 11-person Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE); District 4, which she represented, encompasses eleven parishes in northwestern Louisiana: Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, DeSoto, Natchitoches, Red River, Sabine, Vernon, Webster, and Winn.

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Melville, Louisiana

Melville is a town in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, United States.

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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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Mike Foster (American politician)

Murphy James "Mike" Foster Jr. (born July 11, 1930) served as the 53rd governor of Louisiana from January 1996 until January 2004.

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Miller-McCoy Academy

Miller-McCoy Academy for Mathematics and Business (MMA) was an all-boys' charter secondary school in New Orleans East, New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Minimum Foundation Program

In Louisiana, the Minimum Foundation Program is the formula that determines the cost to educate students at public elementary and secondary schools and defines state and local funding contributions to each district.

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New Orleans

New Orleans (. Merriam-Webster.; La Nouvelle-Orléans) is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana.

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Orleans Parish School Board

New Orleans Public Schools (NOPS) is the public school system that serves all of New Orleans, 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 School Board

The Rapides Parish School Board (RPSB) is a school district headquartered in Alexandria, Louisiana, United States.

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Recovery School District

Recovery School District (RSD) is a special statewide school district administered by the Louisiana Department of Education.

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Republican Party of Louisiana

The Republican Party of Louisiana is the U.S. state of Louisiana's organization of the national Republican Party.

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Sharon Hewitt

Sharon Woodall Hewitt (born September 1958) is a Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate for District 1, which encompasses portions of St. Tammany, Orleans, Plaquemines, and St. Bernard parishes, Louisiana, USA.

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Springhill, Louisiana

Springhill is a city in northernmost Webster Parish, Louisiana, United States.

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St. Martin Parish School Board

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St. Martin Parish, Louisiana

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Taylor Townsend (politician)

Thomas Taylor Townsend, known as Taylor Townsend (born July 5, 1963), is an attorney from Natchitoches, Louisiana, who served as a Democrat in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 2000 to 2008.

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Timmy Teepell

Timothy Patrick Teepell, known as Timmy Teepell (born February 15, 1975), is a Republican political consultant from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who was chief of staff to Governor Bobby Jindal during most of Jindal's first term in office.

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United States House of Representatives elections in Louisiana, 2014

The 2014 United States House of Representatives elections in Louisiana were held on Tuesday, November 4, 2014 to elect the six U.S. Representatives from the state of Louisiana, one from each of the state's six congressional districts.

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United States Senate election in Louisiana, 2014

The 2014 United States Senate election in Louisiana was held on November 4, 2014, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Louisiana.

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United States Senate election in Louisiana, 2016

The 2016 United States Senate election in Louisiana took place on November 8, 2016, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Louisiana, concurrently with the 2016 U.S. presidential election, as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.

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United Teachers of New Orleans

The United Teachers of New Orleans (UTNO) is a labor union representing teachers and other educational workers in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.

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W. E. Whetstone

William Edwin Whetstone, known as Ed Whetstone (August 29, 1908 – February 28, 1987), was a businessman and civic leader from Monroe, the seat of government of Ouachita Parish in northeastern Louisiana, who served from 1962 to 1974 as the Fifth Congressional District member of the Louisiana State Board of Education, a body now known as the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education.

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Walter C. Lee

Walter Clyde Lee, Sr. (born October 5, 1934), is the longest-tenured member of the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education.

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Walter Lee (Louisiana politician)

Walter L. Lee, Sr. (September 9, 1921 – April 12, 2015) was from 1956 to 2012 the clerk of the 13th Judicial District Court in Evangeline Parish in south Louisiana.

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Webster Parish School Board

Webster Parish School Board is a school district headquartered in Minden in northwestern Louisiana, United States.

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When the Levees Broke

When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts is a 2006 documentary film directed by Spike Lee about the devastation of New Orleans, Louisiana following the failure of the levees during Hurricane Katrina.

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Zack Kopplin

Zachary "Zack" Sawyer Kopplin (born July 20, 1993) is an American political activist, journalist, and television personality from Louisiana.

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References

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

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