The report ranked Louisiana among the least affordable states for higher education: 38th out of 50.

New data shows the rate fell last school year by 2 percentage points, but LDOE officials say there is still work to be done.

Roughly 5,300 full-time students are enrolled at the Gentilly campus — about 500 fewer than last year.

Southern University and A&M College in Baton Rouge will be closed through the weekend after officials called a lockdown Thursday morning due to a “potential threat.”

When New Orleans schools reopened after Katrina, most of the city's educators didn't get their jobs back. Instead, they were often replaced with young people who were new to town — and new to teaching.

After Hurricane Katrina, many New Orleans charter schools united in a mission to send more students to college. Today, some of those students, now adults, wish they'd been given more options.

The city's school system looks almost nothing like it did 20 years ago. People in New Orleans have strong opinions about whether that's good or bad, but the data is hard to argue with.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, state officials in Louisiana saw an opportunity to transform New Orleans public schools, many of which they considered "failing." Twenty years later, we look at one of the biggest experiments in U.S. public education and whether the move to charter schools was a success.

After Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans 20 years ago, its school system started over. Many of the city's veteran educators were replaced with young people who were new to teaching — and new to New Orleans.

One hundred schools were put into a state-run district, and within a decade, the state closed all of them, replacing them with charter schools.