Legislators accused the Jindal administration Tuesday of trying to make higher education and health care more vulnerable to budget cuts. Read More and Discuss

Gov. Bobby Jindal proposed a $70 million public schoolteacher pay raise Wednesday as part of his first state government spending plan. Read More and Discuss

After an hour of deliberation, the Jefferson Parish School Board unanimously approved a controversial federal desegregation order Wednesday that aims to stamp out racial inequalities but touched off a firestorm among parents, who turned out in droves this week to protest proposed redistricting changes and a stricter student transfer policy. Read More and Discuss

JEANERETTE - There’s no grand secret to the success of kids at St. Charles Elementary School in Iberia Parish. It’s the little things that seem to be making a big difference. Read More and Discuss

Businessman Burnell Moliere pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to charges that he helped former Orleans Parish School Board President Ellenese Brooks-Simms tap at least $40,000 in kickbacks in connection with a school curriculum contract. Read More and Discuss

A plan to spend $1.5 million in emergency aid to troubled public schools, including 27 in East Baton Rouge Parish, has triggered controversy among state education leaders. Read More and Discuss

The bar has been set high for Louisiana students but most have a slim chance of reaching it, according to a recent study from Education Week. Read More and Discuss

Alleviating poverty through education and economic development were arguably the top priorities of Gov. Kathleen Blanco when she took office four years ago. Read More and Discuss

Louisiana has a great way to hold students accountable, but student achievement and chance for success are among the lowest in the nation, according to Education Week’s Quality Counts 2008 report. Read More and Discuss

Gov. Kathleen Blanco said Thursday that Louisiana’s economy is strong enough for education to remain a top spending priority even after record increases earlier this year. Read More and Discuss

BATON ROUGE - Gov.-elect Bobby Jindal has named a study group that will work on ways higher education can contribute to the state’s economic development. Read More and Discuss

Public education in Louisiana needs sweeping changes to make the state competitive with the rest of the nation, educators and others said Monday. Read More and Discuss

Ruth Ulrich endorsed by Treasurer John Kennedy, Senator David Vitter, and her former opponent, Walter Gatlin. Read More and Discuss

Teacher assistants and paraprofessionals in the Lafayette Parish School System won’t be seeing pay raises any time soon. Read More and Discuss

If there is a single top issue facing House District 44, it is education, the two men vying for that seat in the state House of Representatives said. Read More and Discuss

BATON ROUGE — In the long run, the Louisiana students who could have graduated with their classes in 2007 but dropped out of school would have contributed almost $6 billion more to the state economy over their lifetime, a study released last week shows. Read More and Discuss

Spurred by complaints from parents, state educators are considering a plan that would make it easier for eighth-graders to pass a key test required for promotion. Read More and Discuss

With Bobby Jindal conspicuously missing, the other major candidates for governor spoke at a forum in a New Orleans Baptist church Sunday that was devoted primarily to addressing education, crime and housing problems affecting African-Americans in the city’s post Katrina era. Read More and Discuss

As a voucher program in Milwaukee has expanded, taking money and pupils out of public schools, the schools have responded by ramping up their own performance, a forthcoming study in the Journal of Public Economics argues. The paper offers one of the most positive conclusions yet drawn in the heated debate over the effects of the 17-year-old Milwaukee program, which… Read More and Discuss

State Sen. Walter Boasso, D-Arabi, promised to keep teacher pay competitive with other Southern states during a campaign stop in Lafayette on Monday. Read More and Discuss

Bobby Jindal’s education reform plans include increasing programs for students who aren’t headed to college, improving classroom discipline and reducing paperwork for teachers and counselors. Read More and Discuss

BATON ROUGE—While all candidates for governor say they support education, it’s not a major topic in their speeches or on their Web sites and that alarms teachers. Read More and Discuss

BATON ROUGE - While all candidates for governor say they support education, it’s not a major topic in their speeches or on their Web sites and that alarms teachers. Read More and Discuss

BATON ROUGE - The Louisiana Federation of Teachers on Wednesday endorsed Public Service Commissioner Foster Campbell in his bid to become the state’s next governor. Read More and Discuss

Scores on state report cards that public schools get every year set off alarm bells Thursday among Louisiana education leaders. Read More and Discuss

Three parents waited for Principal Shawon Bernard in her office on the first day of school Tuesday. Downstairs, about 75 parents and students waited to meet her in the cafeteria. Bernard turned to one of her teachers at Dr. Charles Richard Drew Elementary and said, “Could you please go down to the cafeteria and soothe the parents down there?” The… Read More and Discuss

The Paul Vallas era begins Tuesday in New Orleans under the watchful eyes of a city fed up with a feeble public education system. Behind the leadership of new school superintendent Vallas, about 13,400 students, including 4,000 new pupils, are registered for the first day of classes today in the state-run Recovery School District. The system serves slightly more than… Read More and Discuss

AMITE — A job-training program overseen by the Tangipahoa Parish School Board and a regional work-force development board has been the focus of a joint state-federal investigation since at least December 2004, federal court records show. The still-active investigation was prompted after an internal program auditor reported in June 2004 possible fraud by program case managers. Deposition excerpts and affidavits… Read More and Discuss