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The state’s higher education oversight board unanimously voted Wednesday to recommend moving the University of New Orleans, which has struggled with enrollment and finances, back into the LSU System.

In 2019, Louisiana's fourth graders ranked 50th in the country for reading. Now, they're 16th. Here's how the state, and one rural district, pulled it off.

Many schools announced reopening plans on Thursday after a winter storm shut down campuses across the state.

Most Louisianans no longer speak French, but many want their kids to learn. A new school down the bayou is teaching students to talk like their grandparents.

Jones has touted his experience in education. But a review by Verite News identified serious discrepancies in his resume.

Overall, schools received 80 out of 150 points for the 2024 school year, a nearly two point gain. The score translates to a B letter grade.

Louisiana’s plan to make all public school classrooms in the state post the Ten Commandments next year remains on hold under a federal appeals court ruling in New Orleans.

A federal appeals court has temporarily limited the scope of a ruling that Louisiana’s law requiring public schools to post the Ten Commandments in classrooms next year is unconstitutional.

Slightly more students are graduating from public high schools in Louisiana, but many still struggle to get their diploma, according to data released Wednesday.

The U.S. Supreme Court struck down pretty much the same law in 1980. But Louisiana’s attorney general argues the state’s law is constitutional, saying the document is historic and used to be displayed in schools.