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The Best and the Worst of the Week
The Tulane Xavier National Center of
Excellence in Women's Health
got a big boost this month when it received a five-year, $2.3 million grant
from the National Institutes of Health. The money is slated to support mentoring
opportunities for researchers doing work in women's health. The grant is part
of a program by the NIH to support researchers at the beginning of their careers.
The center is one of 12 educational facilities nationwide to carry out the NIH
program.
The
University of New Orleans' College of Education and Human Development
received a U.S. Department of Education
grant aimed at increasing the number of quality teachers in the New Orleans metro
area. The federal Transition to Teaching program gave UNO a $1.8 million grant
for its local program, which helps career professionals to become certified teachers
in their area of expertise. The money will provide tuition and book costs for
320 program participants.
Courtland Crouchet,
the city's longtime chief revenue collector, retired abruptly when an internal
City Hall investigation revealed he and four subordinates illicitly allowed
businesses to forego paying taxes, interest and penalties. The Office of Municipal
Investigation launched the probe after City Hall staff discovered more than
$11 million in sales-tax payments to the city were missing. Crouchet had recently
been demoted for other improprieties.
Louisiana's
juvenile justice system
must revamp the way it handles young offenders, especially its reliance on jailing
kids for even minor crimes, according to a study by the nonprofit Annie E. Casey
Foundation. Locking up youths diverts resources from the juvenile system and ignores
better options, says the foundation, which also advocates closing the state's
most criticized youth prison -- Swanson Correctional Center for Youth in Madison
Parish, known as Tallulah.
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