East Baton Rouge Parish Superintendent Sito Narcisse is setting aside a proposal to move up the start date of the new school year by about two weeks into the month of July in favor of a more traditional school calendar.
Two professors are asking LSU’s Faculty Senate to call on the university to require its 34,000 students in Baton Rouge to receive COVID-19 vaccinations before returning to campus for in-person classes next fall.
Pandemic-related issues surrounding annual standardized tests, which some students are taking now, sparked new controversy Tuesday on the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education.
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LSU Interim President Tom Galligan has taken his name out of the running to become the university's permanent president after trying to steer the university through several months of controversies that include a growing scandal over how LSU has ha…
Facing backlash to starting school year early, will Baton Rouge superintendent rethink his strategy?
New East Baton Rouge Parish schools Superintendent Sito Narcisse sent out a contrite message to staff as they were heading out the door Friday afternoon.
More than a month after LSU released the report by the law firm Husch Blackwell on the university's past failures in handling complaints of sexual misconduct and dating violence on campus, LSU's Title IX coordinator has been reassigned, and a few …
East Baton Rouge Parish school superintendent Sito Narcisse wants to start the 2021-22 school year early as a way of catching up schoolchildren who’ve fallen behind academically during the coronavirus pandemic. Here are answers to frequently asked…
Despite opposition from many teachers and many parents, a proposal to move up by two weeks the start of the 2021-22 school year in East Baton Rouge Parish in order to help reverse COVID learning loss is still kicking and will be debated anew when …
LSU Lab School announced Wednesday that it has hired educator Kevin George as its new permanent director, filling a job that’s been vacant since fall 2018.
Dr. Ghali E. Ghali, chancellor of the LSU medical school in Shreveport, was put on administrative leave Tuesday, a day after four employees filed federal complaints alleging he suppressed sexual harassment allegations involving students and retali…
To get a sense of how deeply Monday's "sick-out" by East Baton Rouge Parish public school employees impacted district operations, we asked the school system to let us know how many teachers were out on a Monday two weeks ago. (Schools were closed …
Four employees of LSU medical school in Shreveport – two of whom are physicians – filed complaints Monday with the federal government saying LSU leadership failed to act when told that Chancellor Dr. Ghali E. Ghali had tamped down reports of wides…
About 16% of the teachers and instructional staff in East Baton Rouge Parish public schools opted to take Monday off, many in protest of a proposal from the new schools superintendent to shorten the summer break by two weeks and force many of them…
With vaccinations of Louisiana school employees well under way, the next step is to vaccinate the children they educate. That process, however, will likely take longer and could spark more controversy.
With two federal probes, lawsuits being filed, legislators looking for heads, the state auditor being asked to poke around, and more sexual conduct allegations going public, it’s clear that LSU is approaching meltdown.
The LSU community will be able to weigh in on the finalists for a new president during the first week of May, chair elect Rémy Voisin Starns told the LSU Board of Supervisors at an unusual Saturday meeting.
Amid rising concerns, officials in 90% of public school districts in Louisiana oppose the issuance of school letter grades because of the upheaval caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the executive director of the Louisiana School Boards Associatio…
At least 75% of West Feliciana Parish school employees have been fully vaccinated for the deadly coronavirus, putting them close to herd immunity.
The Baton Rouge law firm that has represented LSU since the 1930s advised a small group of university leaders not to tell most of the Board of Supervisors about former football coach Les Miles’ alleged improper behavior with female students — advi…
Two months after the U.S. Department of Education launched an investigation into how LSU reports and investigates crimes on campus, the same federal agency has opened a second probe into LSU focusing on sexual assault and harassment.
The colors of the Martin Luther King Jr. monument look a little different today, having been restored to what they were when the sculpture was installed at City Plaza in 1997.
LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center has the second-highest ranking among law schools in Louisiana, but trails the rest of the Southeastern Conference, according to the influential U.S. News & World Report.
Louisiana law school ratings fell like rocks in the one of the major rankings that compare the quality of education provided by colleges around the country.
A day after he sparked criticism with plans to start the next school year weeks earlier than previously planned, new East Baton Rouge Parish Superintendent Sito Narcisse announced on Thursday that he will also push a $1,300 stipend for the school …
As LSU continues to probe how campus officials have handled allegations of sexual misconduct, Associate Dean of Students Jonathan Sanders has temporarily stopped overseeing decisions about punishing students and organizations found responsible for…
A federal court has indicated that one of the nation's longest-running desegregation cases is drawing to a close, the Tangipahoa School System said.
With a sexual misconduct scandal roiling LSU and a group of female state lawmakers demanding accountability, Gov. John Bel Edwards announced Wednesday that he was appointing two women to positions on the LSU Board of Supervisors and the Board of Regents.
Students in East Baton Rouge Parish public schools will return to classes nearly two weeks earlier than normal next school year under a proposal school leaders say is intended to get pupils caught up after pandemic-related disruptions.
The former director of Southern University's iconic marching band was sentenced to 13 months in prison Tuesday by a federal judge who said he "betrayed" the university by misappropriating school money.
Southern University on Monday released further details about its plans for an in-person commencement ceremony this spring.
Citing staffing problems brought on by the coronavirus pandemic, the Livingston Parish School System is launching an effort aimed at growing the number of available substitute teachers in its schools.
For the third consecutive year a state panel Friday asked the Legislature to provide $86 million per year for 10 years to expand early childhood education.
LSU officials on Thursday held a virtual ribbon cutting ceremony for the school's new Early Childhood Education Institute.
The LSU chapter of Kappa Sigma has been suspended by the university over allegations that the fraternity served alcohol to minors, disregarded COVID-19 restrictions and hazed its pledges.
His résumé already included a near-perfect score on the ACT, 15 Advanced Placement classes and a summer publishing research into neurological conditions, but now a Baton Rouge Magnet High senior has added a highly competitive college scholarship t…
After years on the chopping block, one of LSU’s oldest and least loved dorms, Kirby Smith Hall, is set to close for good when the current semester ends in May and eventually be torn down.
Amid controversy at LSU, officials of the Louisiana Board of Regents said Wednesday changes are needed to strengthen sexual harassment policies at colleges and universities statewide, including how complaints are handled.
The ACT requirement is the key barrier, and an unfair one, to Black students enrolling in high school classes for college credit, education officials said Tuesday.
Less than a week after placing him on probation, Oregon State University leaders on Tuesday accepted former LSU President F. King Alexander’s offer of resignation from his position of president of OSU amid scrutiny on how he handled allegations of…
After slowing down during the coronavirus pandemic, the charter school movement in Baton Rouge will resume its prior fast growth this fall when four new charter schools open their doors for students.
Louisiana's hard-hit daycare industry is in store for a $773 million infusion from the $1.9 trillion federal stimulus bill to help operators with coronavirus expenses and parents by expanding access to sites.
GONZALES — Just weeks before asking voters to approve privatizing its sewer system, Ascension Parish is spending $408,000 to bolster an overtaxed Oak Grove sewage plant some officials say has already overflowed on a school campus.
Music, laughter and the smell of beer filled the air outside of a sporting event on LSU’s campus for the first time in a year Friday afternoon.
As a stepping stone towards some sort of universal preschool, new Baton Rouge schools chief Sito Narcisse said he hopes to use federal coronavirus relief money to expand education this fall for 4-year-olds and create mini-schools or centers for ch…
Some schools in the Baton Rouge area were canceling afternoon activities and planning to dismiss early on Wednesday because of severe weather that is forecast to come into the Baton Rouge region.
After 30 minutes behind closed doors, the Baker City School Board on Tuesday picked three finalists, including its current interim superintendent, to invite back for interviews as it searches for the next superintendent of this small suburban Bato…
The Boys & Girls Club of Greater Baton Rouge and the Boys & Girls Club of Southeast Louisiana are merging — a move that combines the club’s chapters for Louisiana’s two largest cities with the hope of reaching more families, the chapters s…
Improving student discipline, consolidating schools, ensuring early literacy, and making sure every area of the parish has good school options are a few of the initial priorities that the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board settled on during a re…
A secret review led by this well-known ex-US attorney was revealed in LSU's sexual harassment report
Tucked inside its blistering report last week on LSU’s handling of sexual misconduct complaints, the Husch Blackwell law firm revealed an earlier investigation, launched in secret almost two years ago and led by a familiar name in New Orleans crim…
Public schools are in line to get a staggering $2.6 billion from the federal stimulus bill that won final congressional approval last week, more than double the amount that schools landed in December.
After years of planning, the public now has an idea of what the long-awaited East Baton Rouge Parish Library branch in the Rouzan development will look like.