The board currently oversees budgets, academic programs and financial aid at the state’s public colleges and universities.

Demand has been so strong that a program to help residents obtain two-year associate degrees in hot fields exhausted its ...

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Raising teacher pay – a hot-button issue several years in a row – is on the list, with one bill aiming to increase ...

The Louisiana Department of Education presented its proposed budget for the next fiscal year during a Senate committee ...

We read a lot of surveys that rank Louisiana near the bottom on measures we would prefer to be at the top. These days, Louisiana education is often leading in innovation and results. There are some ...

A bill by Sen. Patrick McMath that would expand Louisiana’s high-dosage tutoring program to more students unanimously cleared ...

In a small microschool in northwest Louisiana, personalized learning has unlocked remarkable opportunities for students like Isak Schmidley. Isak made history as the youngest-ever graduate of LSU ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — Louisiana continues to make its way up the U.S. News & World Report Best States rankings. In the most recent ranking, the state came in 37th for Pre–K–12 education ...

A law that requires all Louisiana public schools to have one camera placed in each special education classroom takes effect Sunday. And school leaders in the greater New Orleans area say they’re on ...

Louisiana’s steep drop in a national education policy ranking is the result of lawmakers’ decision to scale back funding for the state’s school choice program, according to a report released by the ...