Four deaf students from Saudi Arabia are suing Southern University, claiming the school's failure to consistently provide a sign language interpreter in their classes at the Baton Rouge campus violates federal law and jeopardizes their education.
Five dozen students across the Capitol region are semifinalists for a National Merit Scholarship, out of 16,000 semifinalists nationwide for the 65th annual scholarship competition.
LSU is taking “very seriously” an accusation that a student insulted other students of Asian heritage with a racial slur at an Aug. 31 football game against Georgia Southern, but student privacy laws prevent him from saying more publicly, said Pre…
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A Springfield High School student taken into custody Thursday morning is accused of carrying a handgun onto school grounds.
LSU has named a new vice-president of strategic communications, a position that reports directly to university president F. King Alexander and oversees all communications for LSU, both internal and external.
LSU is investigating a complaint that a fraternity member shouted racial slurs against three people of Asian heritage during a football game last month, though Tuesday the school backed off its earlier suggestions that something indeed happened in…
After an LSU student was accused of shouting racial slurs against three other students during a football game last month, the university is investigating, according to a report from NBC News.
With her pristine lacquered rainbow fingernails holding the drill and her long braided hair pulled back, Wal’Deyunna Lee leveled the 2x4s before she started driving the screw into the window frame.
A Livingston Parish school is offering to reprint its 2018-19 yearbooks after two special-needs classes were excluded in the original version.
Two seventh graders at Westdale Middle School were arrested Monday after an unloaded gun was found in one of their backpacks, according to a press release from the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office.
LSU is tied for No. 153rd among national universities, according to a 2020 survey by U.S. News & World Report released Sunday night.
In what was once a small book closet tucked into a hallway at Walker High School, a group of teachers and students created the “We Care” pantry filled with items like shampoo, toothpaste, mouthwash, snacks and uniforms that kids in need might be t…
Sixteen months after voters approved 10 years worth of school construction and improvement projects, the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board on Thursday started moving on two of three big projects: the $25.2 million to rebuild University Terrace …
LSU is rated the 295th best school among 500 public and private universities in a survey by the Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education released Thursday, up from No. 352 last year.
DUTCHTOWN — Twenty-eight Dutchtown High School students complaining of nausea, dizziness and headaches were taken to the hospital Thursday and the school was evacuated for a time due to fumes from a leaky lawnmower gas tank, Ascension school offic…
With its faux grass, rolling garage doors, open feel and sit-where-you-want configuration, a new "glass classroom" at Eastside Elementary School in Denham Springs is providing students a refreshing change of scenery educators hope will also help t…
After bottoming out in the wake of the August 2016 floods, overall enrollment in East Baton Rouge Parish public schools has rebounded. But new students are largely headed to district-sponsored charter schools, including four that have opened since…
Louisiana's public colleges are receiving standardized forms to report hazing allegations, as the state's top higher education board works to comply with toughened anti-hazing laws.
Parents of students at Woodlawn elementary, middle and high schools in Baton Rouge all received alerts Monday night about a threat received involving a “Woodlawn school” and all three schools will have increased security this week as a result.
Nathalie Roy has fused her passion for Latin with her interest in the wonders of the ancient world. The result is something new: a class in Roman Technology.
MONROE, La. (AP) — All K-12 teachers in Louisiana will have access to an app allowing them to press a panic button that immediately calls 911 and notifies first responders and school staff in the case of an emergency.
The state is changing the way money is distributed to Louisiana’s colleges and universities by putting more emphasis on the progress made by lower income, minority and adult students and less priority on research.
In the latest Payscale 2019-20 College Salary Report, LSU graduates ranked fourth for early-career earnings among Southeastern Conference schools behind Vanderbilt University, Texas A&M University and University of Florida, and fourth behind t…
About half of the public school districts in the Capital region outpaced the state as a whole in the percentage of their students meeting their individual state-developed growth targets while the other half trailed the state on this new measure, a…
ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — One of the world's northernmost sugarcane fields has been planted at a Louisiana State University research station in central Louisiana. The LSU AgCenter is looking into how well various varieties can survive chilly weather.
Istrouma High School Principal Reginald Douglas, a longtime East Baton Rouge educator who led the revival and reopening of the more than century-old school following its lengthy closure, died this weekend of natural causes. He was 51.
Former East Baton Rouge School Superintendent Clayton Wilcox made a prediction when Central leaders went to the Legislature in 2004 and asked that they be allowed to follow in the footsteps of Baker and Zachary and form their own independent schoo…
The Reveille student newspaper at LSU will offer a print edition twice instead of once a week starting on Monday, the paper announced Friday.
The former executive director of a foundation for the deaf was named Friday to be superintendent of the school district that includes the Louisiana School for the Deaf and the Louisiana School for the Visually Impaired.
An armed law officer at LSU to speak to students about cyber security and staying safe on social media triggered the hours-long lockdown and SWAT response on part of LSU's campus when someone spotted his gun and reported an armed intruder on campu…
East Baton Rouge Parish School Board member Connie Bernard appeared in court Tuesday on misdemeanor charges stemming from a profanity-filled confrontation with a young party-goer last summer, but a status hearing in the case was delayed until Dec. 12.
Advocates of early childhood education won their first state funding increase this year but some of those gains have already been offset by a rising demand for services, officials said Tuesday.
Orientation activities were placed on hold and some incoming LSU freshmen found themselves barricaded inside classrooms Tuesday while authorities spent hours investigating reports of an armed intruder on LSU's campus before ultimately issuing the …
More than 8,000 high school students in the past school year earned college credit through exams that measure college skills, up from 5,346 last year, the state Department of Education announced Tuesday morning.
Public schools in New Orleans are significantly better since Hurricane Katrina but gains began to level off in 2013, according to a report issued Tuesday morning.
Nineteen schools heavily damaged during the August 2016 floods are at risk of flooding again simply because they sit at the same elevation as they did three years ago, but rebuilding an entire campus to a greater height is an expensive proposition…
In a tiny room tucked behind the far side of the Port Allen Middle School gym, Chase Nyland-Square spends hours each week sorting crowded racks of clothes, putting the best ones forward for his classmates in need of something to wear.
A prime mover behind Louisiana’s largest online charter school has stepped aside a decade after launching the Baton Rouge-based school.
Two Baton Rouge-based manufacturers are on track to land industrial tax exemptions for multi-million dollar expansions.
In a move long in the making, the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board on Thursday adopted standards for approving and renewing charter schools, standards higher than those used by the state, though not as high as first proposed.
Baker Heights and Bakerfield elementary schools, which share a campus, were briefly on lockdown Thursday afternoon "due to someone in the area with a weapon."
State Superintendent of Education John White won a satisfactory job evaluation Wednesday from Louisiana's top school board.
A school bus driver transporting a half-dozen students in West Baton Rouge Parish was struck by a car Wednesday morning after the bus driver appeared to run a red light.
Amid continuing controversy, state Superintendent of Education John White said Tuesday he hopes to begin talks this week to hire a new superintendent for the district that oversees the Louisiana School for the Deaf and the Louisiana School for the…
Looking once again to take advantage of low interest rates, the Central school system is planning to refinance millions of dollars in debt and pass along an estimated $130,000 in annual savings to taxpayers.
Livingston Parish Public Schools handed out water to students riding buses home Monday amid an intense heat wave that is driving heat indexes above 110 degrees across portions of south Louisiana.
The Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's Office says it temporarily shut down its operating network last week after indications of a possible ransomware attack.
Incumbents who hope to return to Louisiana's top school board say resolving the job future of state Superintendent of Education John White should be a top priority when the new board convenes in January.
Thirteen college students who spent the summer as interns in the administration of Gov. John Bel Edwards described their experiences Monday to the governor and others, including how to improve state operations.
Despite notable gains in key areas, Louisiana remains mired near the bottom nationally when it comes to public school achievement.
An unusual setup for the sale of a computer program — created by LSU employees and worth an estimated $50 million — put the daughter of an LSU Board of Supervisors member on both the board of the company contracted to make the sale and the univers…