Eleven high school seniors — eight from the New Orleans area, two from Lafayette and one from Shreveport — were named Monday as winners of National Merit college scholarships ranging from $500 to $2,000 a year.
Monday, July 16, 2018
Sunday, July 15, 2018
LSU President F. King Alexander remains the highest-paid president of a public university in Louisiana and collects more than the national average, according to a report released Sunday.
Tuesday, July 10, 2018
Louisiana's statewide 2017-2018 LEAP test score results show about one in three students achieved the new benchmark -- mastery -- in math, English and science, a similar percentage to last year, according to results released Tuesday morning.
Monday, June 25, 2018
DENHAM SPRINGS — For a lot of high school kids, you couldn't pay them to go to summer school. In Livingston Parish and other parishes, not only can you pay them, you can give them classroom credit and job skills, too.
Wednesday, June 06, 2018
Joshua Caffery, a published folklorist, poet, and Grammy-nominated musician and producer, is taking the helm as director of the Center for Louisiana Studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
Lafayette Parish School System administrators Annette Samec and Robin Olivier, who are defendants in a federal civil-rights lawsuit, are on leave, Chief Administrative Officer Joe Craig confirmed on Wednesday.
Wednesday, June 06, 2018
Sixty-seven graduating seniors from the New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Lafayette areas are receiving scholarships ranging from $500 to $2,000 a year, the third group of winners in the 63rd annual National Merit Scholarship Program.
Wednesday, May 09, 2018
High school seniors from the New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Lafayette areas captured 25 of the 30 Louisiana scholarships announced Wednesday, the second group of winners in the 63rd annual National Merit Scholarship Program.
Tuesday, April 17, 2018
Four Baton Rouge high school seniors were among nine in Louisiana named in the first group of winners in the 63rd annual National Merit Scholarship Program.
Monday, April 16, 2018
A federal lawsuit filed April 14 claims admissions to Lafayette Parish School System magnet programs are rife with illegal discrimination, which the programs were created to alleviate.
Thursday, April 12, 2018
A judge will likely need to determine what Lafayette Parish School System owes its former superintendent, whose early contract termination was deemed arbitrary and capricious by a state appellate court.
Monday, April 09, 2018
Mary Washington, a longtime Lafayette Parish educator who also served in various positions with the Louisiana Association of Educators, including as state president, has died.
Sunday, March 18, 2018
An LSU physicist wants to play a little Indiana Jones on the university’s hi-tech machinery.
A little-noticed provision in the federal tax cut bill would provide a tax break for families of private school students, and Louisiana lawmakers are moving to take advantage of the offer.
Friday, March 16, 2018
LSU has the largest applicant pool in its history and the university’s board of supervisors approved three new scholarships to entice those students to enroll for the fall semester.
Wednesday, March 14, 2018
Lafayette High School freshman Trevion Breaux emerged from the school’s main entrance shortly after 10 a.m. Wednesday and plopped himself on top of the sign bearing the school’s name on the front lawn.
Tuesday, March 13, 2018
The Louisiana Supreme Court sided with charter school backers Tuesday in a lawsuit that had threatened state aid for about 18,000 students.
Sunday, March 11, 2018
Handguns in schools? Bulletproof vests for students? Louisiana legislators gear up for safety debate
Last month's school shootings in Parkland, Fla. have triggered an outpouring of safety measures in the Louisiana Legislature, including controversial proposals to let teachers arm themselves.
Thursday, March 08, 2018
Gov. John Bel Edwards said Thursday he will support legislation that would reduce the value of student test results in teacher evaluations and make it easier for teachers to earn a form of job protection called tenure.
Louisiana's attorney general sued a local school board Thursday over a meeting disrupted by the video-recorded arrest of a teacher being roughly handcuffed on a hallway floor after she criticized the district superintendent's pay raise.
Wednesday, March 07, 2018
The Louisiana School for the Deaf suffers from low morale among students and staff, is implementing changes without a clear plan and some staff members lack the skills needed to help students, according to a report released Wednesday.
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
A dispute on whether state officials should have routine access to video recordings in early learning centers is about to heat up again.
Thursday, February 22, 2018
Law enforcement officers in St. Martin Parish are investigating a social media threat made to a school in St. Martinville.
A key education group Thursday recommended a $40 million increase in state aid for public schools, the second such endorsement this week.
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
The state is launching a $100,000 campaign to attract more students to the teaching profession.
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
An influential task force Tuesday recommended a hike of about $40 million in basic state aid for public schools.
UPDATE: Evangeline officials arrest 15-year-old boy following multiple threats to parish schools, canceled classes Tuesday
Monday, February 19, 2018
Average public school teacher salaries in Louisiana finally reached the regional average in 2007, a breakthrough that was celebrated by politicians, education groups and others.
Sunday, February 11, 2018
A task force studying the Taylor Opportunity Program for Students declined to line up behind any sweeping changes because of a glaring lack of agreement on the panel, lawmakers and others said.
Wednesday, February 07, 2018
After a five-month study, a legislative task force Wednesday opted against endorsing specific, major changes to the Taylor Opportunity Program for Students.
Tuesday, February 06, 2018
A new bid to oust state Superintendent of Education John White was rejected by 19th Judicial District Court Judge Todd Hernandez.
Monday, February 05, 2018
Many of the nation’s best public universities are enrolling disproportionately few African-American and Latino students — and Louisiana State University has one of the largest disparities.
Jim Henderson, the head of the University of Louisiana System, recalls sitting down with higher education leaders a few years ago to try and figure out why the Bossier Parish Community College wasn’t attracting students.
Friday, January 26, 2018
The Vermilion Parish teacher whose shocking arrest at a School Board meeting triggered widespread outrage was still considering on Friday whether to take legal action.
Thursday, January 25, 2018
Sparks flew at the first full meeting of the Vermilion Parish School Board since the arrest of teacher Deyshia Hargrave at the last meeting caused widespread outrage and directed national media attention on the rural district.
Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Despite its F rating, the contract of a Baton Rouge charter school for students with dyslexia was extended three years Tuesday by Louisiana's top school board.
Gov. John Bel Edwards on Tuesday praised Louisiana's fast-growing program aimed at reinventing career education.
Friday, January 19, 2018
Vermilion Parish School Board president at center of furor over teacher's arrest says he's resigning
The Vermilion Parish School Board president who provoked national outrage after ordering a teacher tossed from a public meeting and later defending her arrest is stepping down.
Monday, January 15, 2018
Not only did Louisiana's lone residential high school weather its name change after an angry legislative battle last year.
Thursday, January 11, 2018
Vermilion Parish teacher who confronted school board described as 'heroine in the fight to be heard'
In the space of less than 72 hours, Deyshia Hargrave went from being an anonymous Vermilion Parish language-arts teacher to an internet sensation who had national network news programs knocking on her door seeking interviews.
The Taylor Opportunity Program for Students would undergo sweeping changes under a plan unveiled Thursday by the chairman of a legislative task force studying the issue.
The Vermilion Parish teacher who was arrested after she spoke out about teacher pay at a school board meeting says she hopes the ordeal prompts others to get more involved in education.
Wednesday, January 10, 2018
The Vermilion Parish teacher who was arrested this week after raising questions at a School Board meeting spoke out Wednesday in a video posted on the Louisiana Association of Educators Facebook page.
A Vermilion Parish teacher who was handcuffed and arrested on Monday at a school board meeting where she raised questions about the superintendent's raise has returned to the classroom, according to a report.
The Vermilion Parish school board's offices were temporarily locked down amid death threats from across the world in response to widely viewed video of a teacher screaming while being handcuffed at a school board meeting.
Tuesday, January 09, 2018
No charges for Vermilion teacher cuffed after questioning boss's raise; supporters say it's not over
The arrest of a teacher who had just been kicked out of a Vermilion Parish School Board meeting Monday after criticizing a vote to give the superintendent a raise is drawing widespread criticism — including from two board members, who said they ar…
A day after the topic led to a teacher's arrest at a Vermilion Parish School Board meeting, Superintendent Jerome Puyau spoke to The Acadiana Advocate on Tuesday about his new three-year contract and pay raise.
Update: Outrage erupts at arrest of Vermilion Parish teacher who criticized superintendent
Thursday, December 28, 2017
Shoring up the Taylor Opportunity Program for Students financially has wide support on a legislative task force but how to do so remains elusive, the chairman of the panel said Thursday.