Louisiana’s state board of education voted unanimously Tuesday to align the state’s fourth and fifth-grade social studies ...

Louisiana is one of the first states to formally update social studies standards to reflect the renaming of the Gulf of ...

Louisiana education leaders plan to take over two F-rated public schools in Baker even though school leaders already decided to close them. The move sets up a potential legal battle that could ...

which requires public schools to meet the needs of students with disabilities. Louisiana relies heavily on federal education dollars. The state received about $2.3 billion from federal sources ...

and it serves over 50 million children in both public and private schools, says the Center for American Progress. What does the U.S. Department of Education do for Louisiana schools and education?

School vouchers were supposed to be an academic lifeline for Louisiana’s neediest children. Under a 2012 law, the state would pay for poor students in struggling public schools to attend private ...

Last November, the new majority-Black 6th district voted in U.S. Rep. Cleo Fields. The district, in its previous, ...

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But those opportunities, he said, wouldn’t be possible without strong support for public schools. As the state considers its ... University of Southwestern Louisiana and a master’s degree ...