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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.
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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.
Taking advantage of low interest rates and a strong credit rating, the Central school system recently refinanced millions of dollars in debt backed by sales taxes and will reap $330,000 a year in savings over the next decade, more than double init…
The effort to find someone to replace outgoing schools Superintendent Warren Drake moves from a simmer to a boil Thursday when the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board tries to choose between two consulting firms that are proposing to help the sch…
A student at the Louisiana School for the Visually Impaired who shared a video he’d taken of himself holding a machete and threatening to kill a fellow student in an effort to get back together with an old girlfriend allegedly made previous threat…
East Baton Rouge Parish School Board member Dadrius Lanus say's he's no longer an officer with a nonprofit group led by James Gilmore, who is part of a team of local consultants bidding on the contract to find a new superintendent for the state’s …
A video posted on social media Tuesday of a Livingston Parish school bus speeding prompted the school district Wednesday to take unspecified action against the driver.
A Baton Rouge private school reopened Monday after a flu outbreak temporarily forced its closure.
Tangipahoa Parish school officials are eyeing a tax proposal to fund work on school facilities that were put on the back burner as public confidence dipped and the decades-long desegregation case hindered construction efforts.
Baton Rouge Police have launched a criminal investigation into the recent suicide of a 13-year-old boy and are looking into whether bullying was a contributing factor in his death.
The first community college in Livingston Parish is finally operational.
Louisiana has the third highest percentage of students attending charter schools in the U. S., according to the Council for a Better Louisiana.
Two firms, one from Baton Rouge and the other from Texas, are seeking to help the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board find someone to replace Superintendent Warren Drake, who is retiring June 30.
Voters in the southeastern portion of East Baton Rouge Parish are considering whether to create a new city of St. George. The final votes will be collected Saturday, after a one-week early voting period concluded last Saturday.
Records from a health center that's accused of misdiagnosing Iberville Parish students as having serious mental health disorders will follow those students for years, authorities say, but the full impact of the false reporting — part of an alleged…
A small private school in Baton Rouge has decided to take the rest of the week off thanks to a sudden outbreak of the flu that hit the school hard on Monday.
HAMMOND — There are the familiar red-brick halls lined with posters of inspiring quotes and glittering handcrafted bulletin boards reflecting the smiling faces of students. Bright yellow all-in-one picnic tables and benches are huddled under shady…
Legos are fun, but rifling through big, unsorted bags of these plastic bricks to find just the right ones isn't. Third graders at Runnels School in Baton Rouge think they have an answer: a Lego shaker.
Tangipahoa Parish school officials on Thursday gave their approval to what could be the final step necessary before closing a 54-year-old desegregation lawsuit that has long hung over the heads of the black community and the local school district.
Parkview Baptist School in Baton Rouge is one of seven Louisiana schools to earn the nation's top school honor, the National Blue Ribbon, according to an announcement Thursday by the U.S. Department of 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.
The financial outlook for Louisiana's colleges and universities is the best it has been in the past decade, Commissioner of Administration Jay Dardenne said Tuesday.
The fight over the finances of a proposed City of St. George has been fierce, with proponents saying it will have ample money while opponents charge that taxes will have to go up. Yet, little has been said about the financial impact of a proposed …
Two East Baton Rouge School Board members are claiming the formation of “working groups,” where a mix of board members and administrators meet in private to discuss the budget, charter school policy and other issues potentially violate Louisiana's…
The Southern University System will take part in an unprecedented partnership with the Central Intelligence Agency under a plan ratified Friday morning by the system's Board of Supervisors.
With little discussion, the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board on Thursday advanced projects to rebuild University Terrace Elementary for an estimated $25.2 million and to upgrade athletic and other facilities at Glen Oaks High.
When Cecilia Broussard gets home after a long day of teaching kindergarten at IDEA Innovation, a Baton Rouge charter school, figuring out what’s for dinner is the last thing she wants to do.
Middle and high school students in Baton Rouge public schools will soon have new computer science and computational courses, thanks to a $1 million federal grant to LSU and the East Baton Rouge Parish school system.
A report of a burning smell late Thursday morning prompted Tara High School to evacuate briefly the 9002 Whitehall Drive campus but no fire was found and classes resumed, said a spokeswoman for the school system.
More Baton Rouge area students are attending college or taking college-level dual enrollment courses, key planks of the Capital Area Promise, an initiative launched last September to create more college and career pathways for students in the Capi…
LSU leaders are urging students and faculty to seek help coping with the sudden deaths of three students who died in separate incidents less than a month since the fall semester started.
A state judge Monday tossed out a lawsuit filed by a former Lee High student who wanted the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board to reverse his December expulsion and pay him damages.
Southern University canceled classes for several students Monday after an electrical fire damaged part of campus building early Sunday morning, officials said.
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…
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…