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With the new school year just two weeks away, the East Baton Rouge Parish school system has filled most of its vacant administrative positions, including naming principals for five schools — but it is still advertising for nearly 200 vacant positi…
LSU and other higher education officials said Tuesday they will be making decisions shortly on face masks and related mandates to cope with the latest surge in cases of the coronavirus.
Unlike last year, Louisiana public school leaders are deferring to local school officials on face masks and other safety measures amid the rising number of cases of the coronavirus.
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Barely a year into his tenure, state Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley's agency is marked by high turnover that has gotten the attention of the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education.
When Nathalie Burguet first left her home in Dordogne to teach French to Louisiana schoolkids in the early-to-mid-1990s, the lessons relied largely on textbooks and rote grammar.
A seemingly routine update of Louisiana's social studies standards has been delayed for two months amid criticism from former House Education Committee Chairman Ray Garofalo and others that the proposed benchmarks would paint an overly negative pi…
New East Baton Rouge Parish Superintendent Sito Narcisse fended off a last-minute attack Thursday on plans to spend millions in federal COVID aid — but not before charging critical board members of micromanagement.
Converting Broadmoor Middle to a visual & performing arts middle-high school, easing the way for nationally recognized KIPP charter schools to take over Capitol High, a $6.2 million expansion of pre-k, approving a new strategic plan and debati…
Despite a new surge in coronavirus cases, school leaders in greater Baton Rouge are sticking with plans to reopen campuses with few restrictions and optional mask-wearing for children and adults — at least for now.
After 23 years of lending school books and other instructional materials to teachers, the Louisiana Resource Center for Educators is selling off its entire inventory with a final closeout later this month.
A year spent taking classes over Zoom and watching TV news about COVID cases ticking up, down and up again left Skyla Degrasse with a sense of conviction. She would become a doctor, she decided last year, so that when a new pandemic appears she’ll…
Southern University’s top leader, Ray Belton, will retire in fall 2022.
A day after saying masks would be required in Catholic schools for the unvaccinated, the Diocese of Baton Rouge reversed course Thursday.
In an expected move, Ascension Parish public schools have announced they will make mask-wearing optional for children and adults except on school buses.
Nearly 200,000 public school students turned out for summer school, up to four times the normal tally amid efforts to tackle learning loss triggered by the coronavirus pandemic, officials said Thursday.
Even as public schools across Louisiana are jettisoning mask-wearing, the Diocese of Baton Rouge is sticking with its face-covering mandate for adults and children in Catholic schools, at least for those who’ve yet to get vaccinated against the de…
High school seniors from South Louisiana received 26 of the 28 Louisiana scholarships announced Monday as part of the 66th annual National Merit Scholarship Program.
New East Baton Rouge Parish schools leader Sito Narcisse is continuing to remake and expand the Central Office, recently announcing the hiring of four high level administrators from outside the district and the promotion of four more from within.
Within three days of taking over LSU, System President William F. Tate IV already has begun rearranging the top leadership at the state’s flagship.
A former board member of the defunct Laurel Oaks Charter School in Baton Rouge has been ordered to pay a total of $16,000 for making a $15,000 loan to the school in fall 2018 and then pocketing $4,000 in interest.
On his first day as LSU’s new president and chancellor, William Tate IV implored students to get the coronavirus vaccine, said he wants to compete for top-level students the way that LSU vies for in-demand athletes, and promised to review LSU’s re…
The prominent charter school group KIPP, which operates eight schools in New Orleans, is moving closer to taking control of Capitol High and making it its first school in Baton Rouge.
Mothballed in 2019, Broadmoor Middle School may soon be reborn as a magnet school with a visual and performing arts focus, but East Baton Rouge Parish School Board members have an array of concerns they want addressed first.
The 4th of July weekend marks the transition of leadership at LSU.
Plans to add about 1,100 new publicly-funded preschool slots for 3- and 4-year-olds in Baton Rouge are nearing reality.
Gov. John Bel Edwards has signed legislation that will reorganize the Special School District, which includes the Louisiana School for the Deaf and the Louisiana School for the Visually Impaired in Baton Rouge.
Helix Mentorship STEAM Academy has purchased its downtown school building for $7.9 million.
Children in Baton Rouge public schools will have the choice of whether or not to wear masks or face coverings this coming school year to protect themselves against the coronavirus, the schools superintendent said Monday.
As an opening step on the road to universal preschool, the East Baton Rouge Parish school system is preparing to contract with child care centers across the capital city to educate hundreds of 3- and 4-year-olds starting in August.
As a young student, the father of incoming LSU President William F. Tate IV gave him a copy of the U.S. Constitution. “When I was teenager, my father handed me the Federalist Papers and basically said ‘You have to understand this’,” Tate recalled …
Three more women have come forward to publicly blast LSU's handling of their complaints of rape and sexual harassment — two involving football players, one involving a professor — as part of a broader lawsuit that says the university has failed to…
In a national study released Wednesday, public schools in Louisiana got a "C' for their civics standards and a "B-plus" for their U. S. history benchmarks.
The outgoing president of LSU sent a letter to employees Monday announcing a 3% pay raise.
In the decade leading up to the deadly coronavirus pandemic, the well-being of Louisiana’s children remained near the bottom of the nation, showing limited improvement even as the nation as a whole improved by almost every measure, including a 5 p…
The East Baton Rouge Parish School Board rejected two charter schools last week, with members expressing concern about what charter schools are costing the school district. But it approved a new K-12 school run by Great Hearts to open in an upscal…
Without a dissenting vote, the Louisiana Legislature approved a push to trim the staggering number of young students who cannot read and named it after the late Steve Carter, a former representative himself who championed the cause.
The LSU Board of Supervisors narrowly approved a resolution Friday asking the Louisiana Department of Health to add the COVID vaccines to the list of shots required before students can attend public schools, colleges, and universities.
The East Baton Rouge Parish School Board on Thursday narrowly approved Texas-based Great Hearts to start a classically oriented charter school, but rejected two other applicants.
LSU Health Shreveport Chancellor Dr. Ghali E. Ghali announced Thursday afternoon that he would resign, effectively immediately, as head of the medical school in Shreveport, just a day after he was reinstated to the post.
LSU Health Shreveport Chancellor Dr. Ghali E. Ghali announced Thursday afternoon that he would resign, effectively immediately, as head of the medical school in Shreveport, just a day after he was reinstated to the post.
AMITE — With a tax hike poised to boost salaries for Tangipahoa Parish school employees, a cohort of school bus drivers are saying their raises aren’t enough for the work they put in.
A major racial gap continues in who takes high school classes for college credit, an education consultant told Louisiana public school and college leaders Wednesday.
Descendants of the late LSU leader Troy H. Middleton filed a lawsuit Monday seeking return of his collection, which is being displayed at the LSU Military Museum, but also asked for money for being embarrassed by the university’s disavowal of him …
State Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley's plan to overhaul how Louisiana rates public schools has sparked such a political uproar that leaders of the state's top school board took the unusual step of delaying debate on the issue that was su…
A speedy effort to come up with a new strategic plan for the East Baton Rouge Parish school system races to a conclusion this week with town halls at Scotlandville and Liberty high schools ahead of a final Thursday vote.
An outside evaluator is urging the rejection of the three latest applicants seeking to open new charter schools in Baton Rouge, including two applicants recommended by a prominent charter school booster organization that has historically gotten it…
The president of Louisiana's top school board said Thursday night the board will delay action on state Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley's plan to revamp how the state rates schools and students.
The Husch Blackwell report that examined LSU’s culture of downplaying – sometimes ignoring – complaints of sexual misconduct contained reckless statements that damaged the reputation of the Baton Rouge law firm that had represented the university …
LSU and William F. Tate IV have come to terms on a contract for the South Carolina scholar to take the reins as president of the LSU system and chancellor of the Baton Rouge flagship campus.
Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University is constructing a 75,000-square-foot building that will serve as the anchor for a plan to develop a cohesive campus for the school.
LSU's Kappa Sigma chapter will be allowed to remain on campus after the university and fraternity worked out a settlement agreement in light of the fraternity being found responsible for endangerment, coercive behavior, failure to comply and alcoh…