A proposal to allow high school seniors statewide who have failed to reach graduation requirements to do so by meeting other, easier standards an idea aimed at helping students whose performance suffered because of the coronavirus pandemic was rejected Thursday by the state's education board.
The Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education has approved school funding for the 2022-23 school year that includes raises for teachers and support staff proposed in Gov. John Bel Edwards’ executive budget.
Pesticides are the chemicals that help to maintain the supply of many modern foods. Highly polar pesticides such as glyphosate, glufosinate, fosetyl-aluminum, bialaphos, ethephon, and phosphonic acid find widespread use, yet their detection and reliable quantitation in foods at trace levels is still a challenge for analytical science. Applying proper analytical techniques, performed with instrumentation designed specifically for ionic and highly polar chemicals, is the key.