Ignatius Reilly
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| Registered on: | 11/23/2015 |
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re: amazing: Louisiana leads rest of nation in newly released reading score improvements
Posted by Ignatius Reilly on 1/29/25 at 5:18 pm
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Curriculum reform seems to be the cause for the success
Curriculum has largely been the same since 2015.
What has changed since Brumley became state superintendent in 2020 are several policy shifts and laws to address the longstanding literacy crisis in La. Among those are a phonics-based approach to teaching reading and corresponding, meaningful professional development for teachers, high-dosage tutoring, and literacy screeners that monitor reading abilities with prescriptive interventions.
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re: Louisiana education rankings climb
Posted by Ignatius Reilly on 11/20/24 at 5:17 pm
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Not sure where they cherry picked that information, but the link from the Dept. of Education article shows Louisiana is ranked #47 in education.
Louisiana PK-12 is ranked 40th. Higher Ed is 49th for an overall ranking of 47.
PK-12 and Higher Ed Rankings
re: Louisiana education rankings climb
Posted by Ignatius Reilly on 11/20/24 at 1:46 pm
Brumley was on the short list to be Trump's Secretary of Education. Lots of progress under his leadership over the past four years. Dude has taken stands against all the woke crap, tightened up discipline in schools and has changed the way we teach reading.
EducationWeek: Trump's Potential Picks for Education Secretary
EducationWeek: Trump's Potential Picks for Education Secretary
LSU renames the Office of Diversity & Inclusion
Posted by Ignatius Reilly on 1/5/24 at 2:09 pm
Now referred to as Division of Engagement, Civil Rights and Title IX
LINK
Here's the message from Tate:
MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT
January 05, 2024
Dear LSU Community,
As we begin a new year, we enter with a renewed sense of commitment to our university community and to the state of Louisiana. We are in the final stages of preparing our long-awaited system and flagship strategic plans, and in advance of that unveiling, we will begin implementation of a central and unifying theme: engagement.
Engagement is defined in several ways. We use two forms of the definition. For us, it represents a two-way process that enables change on both sides. To fully deliver on the promise our flagship offers, we must engage with each other to exchange views and experiences and share potential solutions to our most pressing challenges. Second, engagement reflects a serious commitment. We must commit to find ways to translate our discoveries and talent to serve and elevate the state and its people.
To expand our impact on Louisiana and the world at large, we must increase engagement at every level. That’s a challenge we’re willing to take on for the betterment of our flagship, our friends, and our neighbors.
We’ll start with the largest component of our community: our students. Working with the Division of Student Affairs, the Division of Enrollment Management & Student Success, and every college on campus, the Division of Inclusion, Civil Rights & Title IX will sharpen its focus to enable students across four key areas:
Leadership development
Career readiness and workforce development
First-year experience, college readiness, and mentoring
Health, safety, and wellness
We will measure the impact this change has on all indicators of success across our student body. Additionally, to better reflect this shift, the Division of Inclusion, Civil Rights & Title IX will now be known as the Division of Engagement, Civil Rights & Title IX. And to further incentivize and reward students who excel in this area, we will also introduce the Tiger Engagement Award, which will provide two students annually with an award of $500.
Next, we look to faculty. To support engagement with our esteemed colleagues, we will enact several initiatives. First, we will formally add faculty engagement to all Academic Affairs administrators’ portfolios. We will also introduce an annual award recognizing the university’s most distinguished engaged faculty member with a $3,000 stipend to acknowledge and encourage work that engages individuals and the community in the spirit of our land-grant mission. Additionally, we will work with interested faculty to develop an annual symposium on engagement, service, and the land-grant university. You will soon see a survey to this effect in your inbox, and we hope you’ll take a moment to share your input and perspective.
We also want to recognize the contributions of our valued staff members through introducing the Scholarship First Staff Engagement Award. This annual recognition program will award two exceptional staff whose efforts have resulted in increased engagement on campus and beyond our gates with a $1,000 stipend, and two additional staff members whose efforts have been commendable with a $500 stipend each.
Details and instructions related to award nominations and applications will be forthcoming. All award recipients will be selected via committee.
Finally, we will continue our commitment to state of Louisiana and its citizens through our supplier engagement initiatives. A portion of LSU’s $6.1 billion economic impact is our purchasing power, and we are focusing our efforts to engage suppliers with opportunities to partner with LSU. Details on an upcoming supplier engagement event for the spring will be released later this month.
As we continue to refine our strategic plan, we will share additional measures that will support engagement at both the faculty and staff level, and others that promote the same across our university community and beyond. Moving forward, we will continue to promote engagement through faculty, staff, student, and community groups, both as a core value of our strategic plan and through specific initiatives. Representatives from the Division of Engagement, Civil Rights & Title IX, the Office of Academic Affairs, the Office of Marketing & Communications, and/or the Division of Finance & Administration will reach out to help your division navigate this focus on engagement as appropriate.
We have significant accomplishments to tout, but we should never lose sight of the people who make the university special, and that’s you – our students, faculty, and staff. Our university’s success in education, research and creative scholarship, and outreach is dependent upon our community’s willingness to engage with one another both in and outside of our campus gates.
Sincerely,
William F. Tate IV
LSU President
LINK
LINK
Here's the message from Tate:
MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT
January 05, 2024
Dear LSU Community,
As we begin a new year, we enter with a renewed sense of commitment to our university community and to the state of Louisiana. We are in the final stages of preparing our long-awaited system and flagship strategic plans, and in advance of that unveiling, we will begin implementation of a central and unifying theme: engagement.
Engagement is defined in several ways. We use two forms of the definition. For us, it represents a two-way process that enables change on both sides. To fully deliver on the promise our flagship offers, we must engage with each other to exchange views and experiences and share potential solutions to our most pressing challenges. Second, engagement reflects a serious commitment. We must commit to find ways to translate our discoveries and talent to serve and elevate the state and its people.
To expand our impact on Louisiana and the world at large, we must increase engagement at every level. That’s a challenge we’re willing to take on for the betterment of our flagship, our friends, and our neighbors.
We’ll start with the largest component of our community: our students. Working with the Division of Student Affairs, the Division of Enrollment Management & Student Success, and every college on campus, the Division of Inclusion, Civil Rights & Title IX will sharpen its focus to enable students across four key areas:
Leadership development
Career readiness and workforce development
First-year experience, college readiness, and mentoring
Health, safety, and wellness
We will measure the impact this change has on all indicators of success across our student body. Additionally, to better reflect this shift, the Division of Inclusion, Civil Rights & Title IX will now be known as the Division of Engagement, Civil Rights & Title IX. And to further incentivize and reward students who excel in this area, we will also introduce the Tiger Engagement Award, which will provide two students annually with an award of $500.
Next, we look to faculty. To support engagement with our esteemed colleagues, we will enact several initiatives. First, we will formally add faculty engagement to all Academic Affairs administrators’ portfolios. We will also introduce an annual award recognizing the university’s most distinguished engaged faculty member with a $3,000 stipend to acknowledge and encourage work that engages individuals and the community in the spirit of our land-grant mission. Additionally, we will work with interested faculty to develop an annual symposium on engagement, service, and the land-grant university. You will soon see a survey to this effect in your inbox, and we hope you’ll take a moment to share your input and perspective.
We also want to recognize the contributions of our valued staff members through introducing the Scholarship First Staff Engagement Award. This annual recognition program will award two exceptional staff whose efforts have resulted in increased engagement on campus and beyond our gates with a $1,000 stipend, and two additional staff members whose efforts have been commendable with a $500 stipend each.
Details and instructions related to award nominations and applications will be forthcoming. All award recipients will be selected via committee.
Finally, we will continue our commitment to state of Louisiana and its citizens through our supplier engagement initiatives. A portion of LSU’s $6.1 billion economic impact is our purchasing power, and we are focusing our efforts to engage suppliers with opportunities to partner with LSU. Details on an upcoming supplier engagement event for the spring will be released later this month.
As we continue to refine our strategic plan, we will share additional measures that will support engagement at both the faculty and staff level, and others that promote the same across our university community and beyond. Moving forward, we will continue to promote engagement through faculty, staff, student, and community groups, both as a core value of our strategic plan and through specific initiatives. Representatives from the Division of Engagement, Civil Rights & Title IX, the Office of Academic Affairs, the Office of Marketing & Communications, and/or the Division of Finance & Administration will reach out to help your division navigate this focus on engagement as appropriate.
We have significant accomplishments to tout, but we should never lose sight of the people who make the university special, and that’s you – our students, faculty, and staff. Our university’s success in education, research and creative scholarship, and outreach is dependent upon our community’s willingness to engage with one another both in and outside of our campus gates.
Sincerely,
William F. Tate IV
LSU President
LINK
re: Secondary ticket resellers are absolutely ridiculous
Posted by Ignatius Reilly on 9/19/23 at 11:10 am
Use TickPick. No fees
re: Hobby Box Trading Cards (need OT’s help)
Posted by Ignatius Reilly on 8/23/23 at 2:25 pm
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re: 3 day Cancun trip- all inclusive suggestions please
Posted by Ignatius Reilly on 8/9/23 at 4:22 pm
If you have the means, stay at least 4 nights and 5 if at all possible. Been to several AIs in the Caribbean. Our favs in Cancun area are Secrets Maroma and Iberostar Grand Paraiso. Both are adults only.
re: SOLD ..Super Regional Tickets for sale
Posted by Ignatius Reilly on 6/9/23 at 11:23 pm
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How to find a website that has been deleted?
Posted by Ignatius Reilly on 6/5/23 at 12:06 pm
Tried Wayback machine (LINK /) without success. Any other options?
Reputable Used Car dealers in BR?
Posted by Ignatius Reilly on 2/23/23 at 10:06 am
Suggestions on which used car dealerships in NOLA to consider / not consider, specifically for Toyota sedans under $10k
re: Need new computer. What's minimum for video editing?
Posted by Ignatius Reilly on 1/11/23 at 3:19 pm
Well over a couple hundred hours of old vhs, vhs-c, etc. Looking to store the digital copies in dropbox folder to share with family members.
re: Need new computer. What's minimum for video editing?
Posted by Ignatius Reilly on 1/11/23 at 3:17 pm
Very helpful! Many thanks. Not looking to make any major edits...just splice/delete unwanted parts...nothing at all fancy.
Need new computer. What's minimum for video editing?
Posted by Ignatius Reilly on 1/11/23 at 2:58 pm
Would like to convert old VHS movies to digital. Current desktop is becoming less dependable with more frequent crashes and reboots. Not into gaming, just need enough "firepower" to smoothly convert VHS to digital copies. Laptop or desktop? Which is better bang for buck? Which parameters should I consider?
Where to watch in Mobile
Posted by Ignatius Reilly on 11/18/22 at 10:43 pm
Is there a bar in Mobile that is LSU-friendly?
re: Dads, did you cry or get emotional when your son moved out the house?
Posted by Ignatius Reilly on 10/30/22 at 1:49 pm
Oldest pulled out of the driveway heading to college a little over 11 years ago. Had a hard lump in my throat for a couple minutes after watching him drive away. I remember it well. My emotions were a mixture of being very proud of him, happy for him along with the weight of not being able to protect him.
Capturing VHS on desktop
Posted by Ignatius Reilly on 10/20/22 at 12:24 pm
Shopping for a new desktop home computer. No gaming but would like to capture, edit and burn and/or publish old family video clips. What are minimum parameters for capturing and editing video?
Where to go before and after UW Badgers game
Posted by Ignatius Reilly on 9/14/22 at 9:54 am
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re: Newsweek: An Informer Told the FBI What Docs Trump Was Hiding, and Where
Posted by Ignatius Reilly on 8/10/22 at 3:50 pm
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FBI confidential human source
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including the detail that they were contained in a specific safe in a specific room
Is it possible that Trump is again playing 4D chess here? Could the "human source" unknowingly have been intentionally fed info. knowing he/she/they(:rolleyes:) would report to the FBI, thereby setting up the FBI to barge in only to find nothing? With this unprecedented intrusion, he then controls the narrative of conservatives being unfairly targeted by the FBI while Hillary, Hunter and Epstein listers get a free pass??
La State Superintendent is NOT woke!
Posted by Ignatius Reilly on 7/20/22 at 9:55 am
State education chief questions how new discrimination rules impact school bathrooms, sports
Cade Brumley wants to know if Louisiana schools could face financial penalties
State Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley is asking federal officials whether new sex discrimination rule changes proposed by the Biden administration will require Louisiana public schools to open all bathrooms and girls sports teams to transgender students or face financial penalties.
"We shouldn’t discriminate against any children in any school,” Brumley said in an interview. "But at the same time, I don’t think it is appropriate for biological males to be in the little girls bathrooms. And I think that would be an opinion shared by a majority of citizens in the state of Louisiana.”
The letters stem from a June 23 proposal by the U.S. Department of Education that would vastly expand the reach of Title IX, which turned 50 last month and was aimed at ending sex-based discrimination in education and elsewhere.
The proposal, among other things, is touted as a way to strengthen protections for LGBTQ students “who face discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.”
"As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of this landmark law, our proposed changes will allow us to continue that progress and ensure all our nation’s students, no matter where they live, who they are, or whom they love, can learn, grow and thrive in school,” U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said in a statement that accompanied the plan last month.
In a letter to Cardona’s agency, Brumley asked whether it would be discriminatory under Title IX for schools that get federal aid “to prohibit a student from using a restroom and/or locker room based on gender identity if the gender identity conflicts with the student’s biological sex as indicated on the student’s birth certificate.”
Brumley asked what action federal officials would take and whether the U.S. Department of Agriculture would withhold federal school breakfast and lunch funds for the offending school.
"It is hard for me to even comprehend that the federal government would consider taking away meals from our neediest children because of some philosophical beliefs they hold,” Brumley told a reporter. He said the issue is especially serious in Louisiana because roughly 70% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunches.
The state collected $284 million in federal aid for school breakfasts and lunches in 2019-20, the most recent tally available.
One of Brumley’s letters was sent to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which in May issued a memo that spells out possible sanctions for discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.
Brumley also asked whether Louisiana public schools would be seen as discriminatory if they banned transgender girls from participating on girls sports teams.
Gov. John Bel Edwards, who backed Brumley’s selection as superintendent two years ago, last month allowed a bill to become law without his signature that would bar transgender athletes from competing in girls and women’s sports. The measure won lopsided approval in the Legislature earlier this year.
Federal officials said they will issue a separate proposal on whether and how to change Title IX as it applies to athletic teams. The proposed changes are undergoing a 60-day public comment period.
Brumley said he has been asked about the proposed new policies by educators.
"I have heard that there are systems that are concerned about what they might need to do, and obviously, I have heard from members of the public who think this is a very serious issue,” he said.
Gene Mills, president of the Louisiana Family Forum, which says it advocates for traditional family values, said his group is "grateful that Attorney General Jeff Landry and state Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley are working hard to protect Louisiana children from harmful policies being pushed by the Biden administration."
Brumley also asked the U.S. Department of Education whether the state would run afoul of new Title IX rules if teachers decline to use a student’s preferred gender identity pronoun.
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Cade Brumley wants to know if Louisiana schools could face financial penalties
State Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley is asking federal officials whether new sex discrimination rule changes proposed by the Biden administration will require Louisiana public schools to open all bathrooms and girls sports teams to transgender students or face financial penalties.
"We shouldn’t discriminate against any children in any school,” Brumley said in an interview. "But at the same time, I don’t think it is appropriate for biological males to be in the little girls bathrooms. And I think that would be an opinion shared by a majority of citizens in the state of Louisiana.”
The letters stem from a June 23 proposal by the U.S. Department of Education that would vastly expand the reach of Title IX, which turned 50 last month and was aimed at ending sex-based discrimination in education and elsewhere.
The proposal, among other things, is touted as a way to strengthen protections for LGBTQ students “who face discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.”
"As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of this landmark law, our proposed changes will allow us to continue that progress and ensure all our nation’s students, no matter where they live, who they are, or whom they love, can learn, grow and thrive in school,” U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said in a statement that accompanied the plan last month.
In a letter to Cardona’s agency, Brumley asked whether it would be discriminatory under Title IX for schools that get federal aid “to prohibit a student from using a restroom and/or locker room based on gender identity if the gender identity conflicts with the student’s biological sex as indicated on the student’s birth certificate.”
Brumley asked what action federal officials would take and whether the U.S. Department of Agriculture would withhold federal school breakfast and lunch funds for the offending school.
"It is hard for me to even comprehend that the federal government would consider taking away meals from our neediest children because of some philosophical beliefs they hold,” Brumley told a reporter. He said the issue is especially serious in Louisiana because roughly 70% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunches.
The state collected $284 million in federal aid for school breakfasts and lunches in 2019-20, the most recent tally available.
One of Brumley’s letters was sent to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which in May issued a memo that spells out possible sanctions for discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.
Brumley also asked whether Louisiana public schools would be seen as discriminatory if they banned transgender girls from participating on girls sports teams.
Gov. John Bel Edwards, who backed Brumley’s selection as superintendent two years ago, last month allowed a bill to become law without his signature that would bar transgender athletes from competing in girls and women’s sports. The measure won lopsided approval in the Legislature earlier this year.
Federal officials said they will issue a separate proposal on whether and how to change Title IX as it applies to athletic teams. The proposed changes are undergoing a 60-day public comment period.
Brumley said he has been asked about the proposed new policies by educators.
"I have heard that there are systems that are concerned about what they might need to do, and obviously, I have heard from members of the public who think this is a very serious issue,” he said.
Gene Mills, president of the Louisiana Family Forum, which says it advocates for traditional family values, said his group is "grateful that Attorney General Jeff Landry and state Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley are working hard to protect Louisiana children from harmful policies being pushed by the Biden administration."
Brumley also asked the U.S. Department of Education whether the state would run afoul of new Title IX rules if teachers decline to use a student’s preferred gender identity pronoun.
LINK
re: Sister cried when I didn't want to hold her baby
Posted by Ignatius Reilly on 12/1/21 at 1:58 pm
I'd love nothing more than to hold my infant children again.
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