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A red-shouldered hawk feeds on a pigeon Tuesday afternoon in Morgan City under the U.S. 90 bridge.

Reaction to the changes to Common Core standards pushed by state Superintendent of Education John White and approved by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education Tuesday is positive.

BATON ROUGE (AP) — Public school letter grades, teacher evaluations and student promotion won’t be affected by Louisiana’s shift to more rigorous educational standards for two years, the state’s to