education overhaul

“I’m not a communist.”But Senator Conrad Appel isn’t a happy camper, either. He took to the floor of the Senate Thursday to deliver a tirade directed…

It’s been nearly two years since Louisiana’s Legislature passed a package of highly-controversial education reforms. Since then, there has been confusion…

New Orleans will soon become the first city with an all-charter school district, but the education landscape looks much different across the rest of...

The Jindal administration and the Louisiana Federation of Teachers, a union, got to take a second bite of 2012’s Act 1 when the state Supreme Court sent…

The state's top school board has approved $2 million in financing to pay for students to take individual classes elsewhere if their public school is…

Attempts to slow down parts of a public education overhaul have been quashed.The Senate Education Committee opted Thursday not to take action on a bill…

Louisiana’s Supreme Court has ruled that money reserved for public schools can’t be used to pay for private school tuition under the state…

The House Education Committee has agreed to a proposal that would delay the disciplinary effects of a new teacher evaluation system for another year while…

Tuesday, the state Supreme Court will hear arguments in a suit from local school boards and teachers unions wanting Louisiana's school voucher program…

A state judge has thrown out rules passed last session tying teacher tenure and pay to classroom performance. Monday's decision is a turnaround from the…