splinter and breakaway school districts

On the ballot for parts of East Baton Rouge Parish, there’s a measure to create a new city: The City of St. George. It’s the first step to carving out a...

The state House has rejected a proposal to restructure the East baton Rouge Parish School District. In making his closing argument for the bill in the…

The Baton Rouge Metro Council has approved the annexation of Our Lady of the Lake Hospital, Baton Rouge General Hospital, and the Mall of Louisiana. To…

A campaign to incorporate a new city in the southeastern part of East Baton Rouge Parish is aiming to collect 18,000 signatures by July 23 to get the…

Jim discusses the proposal to incorporate a new city of St. George within East Baton Rouge Parish. Republican consultant Scott Wilfong is opposed to the…

Lawmakers are going home having passed a bipartisan $24 billion state spending plan. But they're bringing home more than just the budget to their…

Monday lawmakers and lobbyists hustled across the rotunda that connects the chambers to assemble the votes to keep their bills alive, lest they fall…

The slice of east Baton Rouge between Interstates 10 and 12 may be a step closer to seeing its own school district.A constitutional amendment that would…

A constitutional amendment allowing for an independent school district in Southeast Baton Rouge fell fewer than 10 votes short of making it out of the…