Cameos of minden Larry Milford: An artist of many forms PAGE 7 MINDEN RESS ERALD P -H www.press-herald.com April 1, 2015 | 50 Cents WEDNESDAY INSIDE Crime today eduCation in Louisiana Father, JINDAL daughter accused VERSUS of selling High school baseball meth heats up BONNIE CULVERHOUSE BESE [email protected] SPORTS PG.6 SPRINGHILL — A father- daughter team has been Who will win the education taken into custody in Springhill, standards war? following an investigation of illegal nar- MICHELLE BATES cotics activi- [email protected] ties at their residence. Gov. Bobby Jindal unveiled his plan in Lacie B. POE March to replace the Common Core State Lasha Poe, 18, and Ben- Standards in Louisiana. However, the Board of jamin D. Poe, 45, of the 900 Elementary and Secondary Education has block of 1st St. S.E., Adley files bill to countered with a plan of their own. Springhill, were arrested by Jindal wants out of CCSS while BESE wants North Webster Narcotics benefit higher to use the same content standards but take a Task Force agents on drug education year to review them with Louisiana educators. charges. State Rep. Gene Reynolds, D-Minden, says Lt. Shawn Baker says BESE’s plan is a far better one. Lacie Poe was in Ward II NEWS PG.2 “It’s a transition rather than a complete court when she was arrest- pull out by the roots and go back to what ed for distribution of CDS everybody says wasn’t working back in 2004- Sch. II methamphetamine. 05,” he said, “which is Jindal’s plan. I find a lot “This was the result of of issues with Jindal’s plan right now.” an ongoing investigation at Jindal wants to go back to the GLEs, or Grade Level Expectations, and the LEAP and SeeARREST, Page 2 iLEAP tests “with a replen- ished questions bank” while a new Louisiana content stan- dard is developed, according to officials with the governor’s apriL fooL’s day office. “These new standards will also set minimum require- ments for English Language JINDAL Obama resorts to Arts by giving equal consider- This ation to elements that have been minimized government by in the Common Core standards, like classic sucker punch literature and complete works of literature,” officials said. “The new standards w ill also set minimum requirements for the use of joke’s OPINION PG.4 math algorithms that consistently result in a correct answer and follow traditional for- mulations.” WEATHER Jindal’s plan will also include a “trans- on you TOMORROW’S OUTLOOK parent standards adoption process that includes parents, educators and school leaders.” April Fool’s Day BESE, in its March meeting, maintained dated back to its standing with CCSS, and wants to take an extra year to review content early 1500s standards in English and math. 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SeeFOOL, Page 3 2 Wednesday, April 1, 2015 – Minden Press-Herald SECONDwww.press-herald.com FRONT Louisiana LegisLature Adley files bill to benefit higher ed BONNIE CULVERHOUSE “The state is coming up participation in the retire- make would go up to off- from any source, including have to make the payment with hundreds of millions ment system. set what the school wasn’t bond proceeds. [email protected] this year. That saves $153 every year that we have to “Some of our universi- paying,” he said. “So, that’s “What I thought about million we are trying to pay into UAL to try to keep ties – like LSU – 40 percent impossible.” was, what if I just had the As the 2015 legislative the retirement system of their employees are not Adley’s proposed law school pay off their part of locate to save our univer- session draws closer, Dis- sound,” Adley said. “All of part of our retirement sys- retains the present law the debt,” Adley said. “The sities.” trict 36 Sen. Robert Adley, our univer- tem,” Adley pointed out. and provides the employ- total UAL for this state is Adley feels the savings R-Benton, is getting his sities – “They are in defined con- ers with an option to elect over $12 billion. Their part ducks in a row to try and their annu- tribution, like 401K, to pay for their share of of it is $1.7 billion. If I’m could be $30 to $40 mil- help the state’s higher edu- al payment because professors and the existing system liabili- having to give the schools lion a year per school. cation system through this year is people like that are gener- ties but incur no addition- $153 million to make their “Everybody else says (to Unfunded Accrued Liabili- $153 mil- ally very mobile. They al liabilities at the system. payment, and if they the universities) refinance ty. lion into don’t like to be in retire- It also provides for decide on their own to go Adley has filed SB 18, that fund.” ment systems, but the uni- actuarial calculations and pay it off – issue bonds or the debt, but that’s not fix- that applies to the Board Present versity is still required to legislative review of the whatever they have to do ing the problem,” he said. of Regents, Board of law pro- ADLEY pay into UAL based on the payment necessary to to pay it off – and I keep “If they could pay it off, Supervisors for the Uni- vides for salaries of those people.” extinguish the university’s making my payment to they would be reducing versity of Louisiana Sys- membership in the At the time, he says it share of UAL, while pro- them, that’s no skin off me tem, Louisiana State Uni- Teacher’s Retirement Sys- made sense. viding for additional cal- because I’m going to have the overall debt in our versity, Southern Universi- tem of Louisiana for cer- “If we come back today culations and payments of to make it regardless. If I retirement system by 10 ty, Board of Supervisors of tain full-time unclassified and tell the universities permanent benefit make it to them, if they go percent. That’s good for Community Technical Col- employees of postsec- they don’t have to make increases to the elector’s sell their bonds to pay it the state, g ood for the leges and any institution ondary education institu- that payment any more, retirees, survivors and off, we have solved about under the authority of tions, systems and boards the payment all the teach- beneficiaries. Funding for $153 million of their prob- retirement system and those boards. based on their employers’ ers in the state have to the payments may come lem because they won’t good for them.” ARREST Coroner: Death of Andrew Getty appears natural Continued from page 1 her residence where agents purchased LOS ANGELES — The death at a Hol- A woman calling to report that some- the Getty Oil Co. and was at one point methamphetamine from her,” Baker said. lywood Hills home Tuesday of Andrew one had died sent officers to the gated named the richest living American by Later the same day, Baker and Det. Getty, one of the heirs to the fortune of home on Montcalm Avenue shortly after Fortune magazine. He had five sons and Ronald Wedgeworth made contact with Ben- one of the wealthiest and best-known 2:15 p.m. They found a man dead in a died in 1976 at age 82. jamin Poe, also at Ward II Court. families in American history, was most bathroom, police spokesman Jack J. Paul Getty was an avid collector of “We explained we had purchased likely from natural causes or an acci- Richter said. art and antiquities, and the Getty name methamphetamine and marijuana from his dent, authorities and family members Police Cmdr. Andrew Smith said the is best known in the Los Angeles area for residence on several occasions,” Baker said. said. woman who had called pol ice was coop- the museum that houses much of it, “We obtained a waiver of search of his resi- The death appeared to be from natu- erating with the investigation. Richter along with many other high-priced art- dence after he admitted he had used ral causes, Los Angeles County coroner's said she was not arrested and he did not works bought since his death. methamphetamine that day before going to Assistant Chief Ed Winter said, but it has know her identity. Another Getty grandson, J. Paul Getty court.” been initially called an accident because Coroner's vans and news trucks were III, lost an ear in a grisly kidnapping in The agents, along with Springhill Police of medication found at the scene. He parked outside the century-old luxury Rome when he was a teenager. The fam- Chief Will Lynd and Det. Bryan Montgomery said coroner's officials need to await the home on one of the winding roads in the ily reportedly stalled on paying a ran- reportedly searched the residence and dis- results of further examination and toxi- hills that are home to many of the film som, and the kidnappers cut off part of covered suspected methamphetamine, cology tests, which could take up to 10 industry elite.