Phillip May, president and chief executive officer of Entergy Louisiana, was named Wednesday to the state Board of Regents by Gov. John Bel Edwards.
Baton Rouge Community College computers started acting up, so the institution’s IT department took down the servers, according to BRCC personnel.
Despite financial and other hurdles, Louisiana education leaders Wednesday voted to aim for high school graduates to leave school with college credit or an industry-based credential by 2029.
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Louisiana's top school board Tuesday extended the contracts for two Baton Rouge charter schools.
In August 2011, an earnest animal advocacy group took over the animal shelter in East Baton Rouge Parish with the aim of transforming a place built to dispose of problem animals into one that found them permanent homes.
Balloon releases can be stunningly beautiful and festive. They also can be deadly for wildlife, livestock and outdoor pets.
The East Baton Rouge Parish school system is preparing to spend $215,000 to improve backup systems to protect its data from the kind of ransomware attacks that hit other schools systems last summer and shut down key parts of state government last month.
Controversy erupted Thursday at the LSU Board of Supervisors on whether the school should adopt a major change to the ACT, which helps determine college admissions and scholarships.
After nearly a decade of cuts and standstill budgets, Gov. John Bel Edwards Wednesday promised board members overseeing the state’s largest collection of public universities that his upcoming state spending plan will include more money for higher …
Arrested Dutchtown teacher was involved at Catholic schools, was Eucharistic minister in Baton Rouge
Mark Ebarb, the Dutchtown High School teacher accused of sharing inappropriate messages and photographs with underage students, has served as a lector and Eucharistic minister at Christ the King Parish in Baton Rouge and worked for a summer camp a…
Five of Louisiana’s universities were ranked Wednesday as among the nation’s worst at protecting “free speech,” according to a conservative group.
GONZALES — A Dutchtown High School teacher recognized statewide for professional excellence and community service was arrested Wednesday on allegations he had shared inappropriate messages and photographs with underage students for more than five …
Twenty-four students at Lee High School in Baton Rouge are facing suspension after videos surfaced of them of fighting in boxing matches in school bathrooms.
LSU President F. King Alexander told The Los Angeles Times that he is leaving his options “open” – though his wife is fond of the weather in Southern California – when asked about his name being included among potential candidates to fill presiden…
State education officials said Monday they are grappling with how to handle a new national policy that will allow students to re-take individual sections of the ACT, not the entire test, to boost all-important composite scores.
Starting Tuesday, people interested in who should replace outgoing Superintendent Warren Drake to run the East Baton Rouge Parish school system will get three chances to speak their minds publicly at a series of community forums scheduled througho…
When Bridget Williamston got into an argument recently with her 17-year-old son, she felt desperate and unable to communicate properly with the teenager.
A lawsuit that Max Gruver's parents filed last year against the LSU Board of Supervisors, Phi Delta Theta and current and former members of the fraternity has detoured into a fight over whether the university can be sued as a result of his 2017 al…
In his second term, Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards is likely to find common ground with the Republican-controlled Legislature on a new round of teacher salary hikes and boosting state aid for early childhood education, officials said.
Instead of letting principals freely set student fees as they have in the past, the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board on Thursday set a few, broad districtwide fees, but also specified that schools don’t have to charge any fees at all.
Former LSU student Matthew Naquin likely will serve only a few months behind bars after a judge sentenced him Wednesday to 5 years in prison, but suspended all but 2 ½ years of the term, in the 2017 alcohol-related hazing death of 18-year-old frat…
Residents of Central will get a first look Tuesday night at potential major renovations to Central High School as the suburban Baton Rouge school district tries to firm up how it wants to modernize the 46-year-old high school.
Runnels School in Baton Rouge will increase tuition substantially next year for its high school students, and it’s asking parents to renew en masse no later than Jan. 31 or the high school may have to close.
To cover a projected increase in costs next year, the Central School Board on Monday changed its main health care plan by imposing a deductible for employees, but it kept premiums the same and even lowered copays for visits to a primary care physician.
Pointe Coupee Parish school leaders say they could be forced to close up to half the parish's campuses and lay off a significant number of teachers if a longstanding tax up for renewal Saturday fails.
While 44% of Louisiana's public schools are again under special scrutiny, the picture is less dire than it was eight years ago when state leaders announced that 44% percent of schools were rated "D" or "F."
Thanks to a federal grant, schools throughout Louisiana, including ones in Baton Rouge, plan to try out a mobile “panic alert” app that would alert school staff and first responders immediately in the case of an emergency.
Instead of letting principals freely set student fees as they have in the past, the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board on Thursday preliminary approved a few, broad districtwide fees, as well as additional charges for students taking certain ele…
After a nationwide search, St. James Episcopal Day School has turned to the other side of Baton Rouge for its next top administrator.
Public school districts in the Baton Rouge area regained some of the ground they lost a year ago in Louisiana’s academic rankings due to major changes that year in how the state calculated school and district letter grades.
Nearly half the public schools in Louisiana – 44 percent – require sweeping improvements and about 45,000 students attend F-rated schools, state Superintendent of Education John White announced Wednesday.
One of the bright spots for Louisiana in the latest installment of the nation's report card is the performance of African-American students in reading and math.
Empty since May, Broadmoor Middle School in Baton Rouge is set for a $15 million remodeling project soon, but that’s likely to get pushed back at least a year as school officials struggle to figure out what to do with the 58-year-old facility.
Louisiana is ranked 49th in the nation on a test of college readiness called the ACT, down from 45th last year, according to results released Tuesday.
As a growing number of Hispanic families move into Tangipahoa Parish, the school system is expanding a program that aims to help students who may be struggling with language barriers that can make learning difficult.
East Baton Rouge Parish School Board members clashed Monday night over whether to spend millions of dollars on new schools in school-scarce south Baton Rouge now that much of that area has voted to incorporate into the new City of St. George.
East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff’s deputies issued summonses to three coaches in a fight last Friday at Scotlandville Magnet High School following a football game.
Ascension Parish law enforcement and school authorities are investigating reports that a male Dutchtown High School teacher had inappropriate interactions with a student, a sheriff's spokeswoman said.
The East Baton Rouge Parish school system will need to be “reengineered,” low-enrollment schools may have to close and retiree health care reworked in the years to come, School Board President Mike Gaudet told the Rotary Club of Baton Rouge at its…
The East Baton Rouge Parish school system will need to be “reengineered,” low-enrollment schools may have to close and retiree health care reworked in the years to come, School Board President Mike Gaudet told the Rotary Club of Baton Rouge at its…
The Louisiana Board of Regents is asking the Legislature for a $155.6 million increase in state aid for colleges and universities, or 14.5%.
More than 40 students were removed from three high schools in the Tangipahoa Parish public school system for various fights spanning Tuesday and Wednesday.
Black and Hispanic students and youths living in poverty in Baton Rouge are “systemically excluded from rigorous, high-quality curricula and instruction,” argues a new report that points to gaps in their academic achievement compared with their p…
The East Baton Rouge Parish school system is looking to spend up to $100 million to build as many as three new schools south of Interstate 10, but it appears increasingly unlikely that any of them will be built within the boundaries of the propose…
While African-Americans make up about half of the students in Louisiana's public schools, only 5% of teachers are black men.
Just like the Metro Council three weeks ago, the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board on Thursday easily approved requests from two manufacturing companies for 10-year industrial tax breaks for proposed expansions of their Baton Rouge facility.
The East Baton Rouge Parish School Board voted unanimously Thursday to have Austin-based JG Consulting head the search to find a replacement for outgoing East Baton Rouge Parish Superintendent Warren Drake and lead the Louisiana’s second-largest p…
Worried about potential confusion from the vote to create a new City of St. George, East Baton Rouge Parish Superintendent Warren Drake on Wednesday night issued a robocall to parents of public schoolchildren to let them know the vote changes noth…
Episcopal High School has hired veteran educator Carrie Steakley to serve as its new Head of School in Baton Rouge, starting July 1.
The state has landed $115 million in competitive federal grant awards, with most of the money aimed at improving literacy at troubled public schools.
Four Louisiana teachers are among those nationally who earned the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching, the White House announced Tuesday morning.