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The two men spoke several times at the “Fête de la Musique” at the French Presidential Palace in Paris. The event was headlined by Jon Batiste, a first for a Louisiana musician.
The December visit by the French president showcased the importance of the French language in the state. Some francophone and creolophone leaders and activists hope for a chance to make real progress.
The French President’s schedule includes a meeting with the Governor, a speech on Louisiana’s French language, and strolls around the French Quarter and Frenchmen Street.
The visit will showcase Louisiana’s unique French language and culture and will be the first by a French President in almost 50 years.
SB191 would allow computer science to replace the language requirement in TOPS for students graduating after 2026, but the law could still be vetoed by Governor John Bel Edwards.
Approved Tuesday in the Senate, HB 261 will allow École Pointe-au-Chien to begin serving students from Indian French and Cajun families in Terrebonne and Lafourche in August 2023.
Louisiana’s legislators must act to protect heritage language education endangered by the current version of SB 261, writes French immersion educator Lindsay Smythe.
In a complaint filed Friday with the Eastern District of Louisiana, the parents argue the school closure is arbitrary, discriminatory on the basis of race, language, and national origin, and thus unlawful.
Despite an outcry of complaints from the PAC Tribe, community, and their allies and no specific justification for the decision, the School Board voted 6-3 to close the School.
Community members have mobilized to protest the move, arguing that closure will harm students as well as the unique culture, community, and economic livelihood of the Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribe and broader Pointe-Aux-Chênes community.
The former CODOFIL teacher and Louisiana resident of 19 years will rejoin his family and avoid deportation for the time being.
The US administration will give them an exemption from the Presidential Proclamation barring foreign workers from entering the United States.
State officials claim the changes to federal flood insurance policy will raise premiums tenfold without taking into account flood protection systems like Morganza-to-the-Gulf.