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A new survey shows average teacher pay in Louisiana is 12th of 16 states in the South, which raises doubts on whether Gov. John Bel Edwards will deliver on his pledge to get salaries to the regional average by the time he leaves office in 2024.
Public school superintendents on Tuesday will start getting "simulated" test results from math, English and other exams after Louisiana won permission to shelve annual letter grades because of the coronavirus pandemic.
In the hallway at her Baton Rouge high school, Zion Wardsworth stood patiently while a woman in a blue lab coat drew circles with a swab around the inside her lower nostril to check whether or not she’d been infected with COVID-19.
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After getting dropped by its first consultant, the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board has settled on someone new to redraw the boundaries of its election districts — but not before a rancorous vote and mudslinging by the two consultants still in…
The clash between the president of Louisiana's top school board and state Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley is raising questions about their all-important working relationship.
School and law enforcement officials in Tangipahoa Parish are disappointed that parents inflamed an already-tense situation by taking to social media as local deputies tried to investigate reports of an armed man on school grounds.
Baton Rouge will soon be home to its first arts conservatory — “the Juilliard of Baton Rouge” — where local teenagers can cultivate their skills for possible careers in music, film, dance, theater and visual arts.
Tangipahoa Parish Public Schools will return to virtual learning Friday following a high number of employee requests for leave, anticipated absences and a shortage of substitute teachers.
If the declines in COVID cases continue, students and staff in East Baton Rouge Parish public schools will no longer have to wear masks when the spring semester starts in January.
LSU is also ending restrictions for on-campus events.
An audit that shows nearly 25% of annual state aid for public schools is siphoned off for retirement debt may require legislation in the name of fairness, members of a state oversight panel said Monday.
The once widespread, but still common practice of hiring school employees before the completion of their criminal background checks recently came back to bite the East Baton Rouge Parish school system when it hired a convicted felon to teach at an…
On a daily basis, school cafeterias in the Greater Baton Rouge area are short of workers, food items and supplies — a predicament seen across the state and country.
The president of the state school board Friday rebuffed a demand by state Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley to provide him with evidence of possible wrongdoing in the issuance of emergency contracts by his agency.
Louisiana's top school board Thursday asked Legislative Auditor Michael Waguespack to investigate emergency contracts issued by the state Department of Education amid controversy over two no-bid agreements that went to a former top official of the…
Virtual education in Louisiana is "spotty at best" and needs more state oversight, according to a report released Wednesday by the Public Affairs Research Council of Louisiana.
Some Louisiana parents have received letters from schools that seem to suggest COVID vaccines are mandatory for their kids, prompting an outcry from anti-vaccination political groups.
SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — The chancellor of Southern University Shreveport is resigning, effective Dec. 31.
Former state Superintendent of Education Wilmer Cody, who launched an early version of Louisiana's teacher rating system, has died, his family announced Tuesday.
State Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley's push to award $342,000 in two "no-bid" contracts to a former top official of the East Baton Rouge Parish School school system has prompted questions and criticism, including from the president of th…
A vacant campus on Goodwood Boulevard may soon be transformed into an arts conservatory — “the Juilliard of Baton Rouge” — preparing local teenagers for possible careers in music, dance, theater and the visual arts.
The Livingston Parish School Board agreed to bump up five administrators to a pay scale for people with master's degrees despite a tense misunderstanding with the superintendent, who said he was under the impression he had the authority to approve…
Two firms are in the running to draw new district maps for the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board to replace the contractor that abruptly quit earlier this week, citing lack of cooperation from three board members.
While Louisiana has won national praise for its use of top-flight textbooks and other materials in public school classrooms that pattern has dropped in the past two years, according to a report by the Rand Corporation.
The firm helping the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board draw new district maps has quit, saying three board members would not sit down with it.
Despite the advice of medical experts, 14 Republican House members Monday questioned the need for children ages 5-11 to get the coronavirus vaccine in what could be the opening salvo in a new round of controversy.
Fearing their children would be blamed for the nation’s history of racism, cadres of Louisiana parents last summer stormed the usually dry meetings of academics updating curriculum for about 720,000 students in the state’s public schools.
An East Baton Rouge delegation led by Superintendent Sito Narcisse and several School Board members are visiting Miami next week to visit arts-oriented schools.
Louisiana deserves "D's" for its financial support of public schools, how the money is allocated and the state's commitment to education, according to a national report issued Thursday.
Vaccines that protect children ages 5 to 11 against COVID are likely coming soon to a doctor’s office, pharmacy or school near you — and medical professionals are bracing for an initial rush of interest.
In an about face, the National School Boards Association has backed off its claim that actions by local school board activists amount to "domestic terrorism," which prompted Louisiana officials to end their affiliation with the national group.
More schools in the Baton Rouge region announced Wednesday they are droping their requirements that students and staff wear masks.
If public schools in Ascension, Livingston, Tangipahoa, West Baton Rouge and West Feliciana parishes want to stop requiring masks in schools, they'll need to resume quarantining students who are exposed to COVID.
LSU will continue to require students, faculty and staff to wear masks on campus for the rest of the semester even after Gov. John Bel Edwards lifted the statewide mandate for most people Tuesday.
The state is taking the extraordinary step of offering rewards to parents who take part in their child's education.
A major energy and chemical company based in South Africa has agreed to to underwrite the bulk of a new $1 million fund for Southern University in Baton Rouge that will pay for a new endowed chair, doctoral fellowship and scholarships for up to 1…
Former Oregon State University President F. King Alexander won’t face any consequences for using university attorneys to respond to a probe into LSU’s handling of campus rape allegations during his tenure there.
When Kathy Griffin walked into a bus driver training class for Livingston Parish Schools in 2006, the room was filled to bursting with close to 40 people.
Louisiana's teacher shortage is getting worse with retirements on the rise, the number of new teachers plunging and superintendents finding it increasingly difficult to fill classroom jobs.
An Ohio-based consulting firm will spend the next several months probing whether East Baton Rouge Parish schools are paying their nearly 6,000 employees appropriately and to recommend ways to fix any problems they find.
After years of stagnant or reduced budgets, higher education leaders Wednesday requested a 19% hike in state aid for colleges and universities amid Louisiana's brighter financial outlook.
Halftime at Tiger Stadium: football fans roared, crowds shuffled single-file along the walkways ferrying snacks and sodas from concession stands, and Ryan Barnes was left stranded.
The Louisiana School Boards Association is dropping out of the National School Boards Association after officials of the umbrella group asked for federal intervention to combat what it called possible "domestic terrorism" by critics who show up at…
A little-noticed state retirement obligation is costing public school students and teachers $853 million per year, state Auditor Mike Waguespack said Monday.
GRAMBLING, La. — Officials at Grambling State University have blamed "outsiders" for a recent spate of violence on campus, including a shooting that left one person dead and seven others wounded Sunday in northern Louisiana.
State Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley has gotten embroiled in three, unusually public, disputes since June with the board that hired him.
State education leaders have delayed action on new social studies standards a second time amid off and on complaints on how the benchmarks would present the nation's racial history.
Louisiana's score on a national test of college readiness fell for the fourth year in a row and remains among the lowest in the U.S., officials said Wednesday.
Louisiana's top school board Tuesday voted to shelve public school letter grades this year but made it contingent on final approval from the federal government, which is expected.
On his job application, a former Parkview Elementary teacher whose hiring has sparked controversy wrote “no” when asked if he’d ever been convicted of a crime. Weeks after he’d started teaching, his mandatory background check finally came back: He…
Federal officials are expected to approve Louisiana's request to shelve public school letter grades amid declining test scores blamed on the coronavirus pandemic.