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Except for a slight uptick this fall, enrollment is expected to keep dropping and school leaders say there are already too many empty seats.
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Gov. Jeff Landry’s top budget and tax officials presented a plan for the coming fiscal year to a joint committee of the Legislature on Thursday, despite growing uncertainty over how potential federal funding cuts could affect the state's finances.
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A state judge ordered Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry to produce text messages he sent to the chairman of the LSU Board of Supervisors about a law professor who made comments critical of the governor to his class.
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The department tracks student achievement, manages college financial aid and sends K-12 schools money to support students with disabilities and lower-income communities, among other things.
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The deal was supposed to end a lawsuit filed by the school board in 2019, accusing the city of keeping money meant for public schools, and would offset the district's at least $36 million deficit.
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In recent years, the state’s fourth-graders have made noticeable growth in reading — and now in math — catapulting the state ahead.
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A state judge has ordered LSU to allow its law professor Ken Levy to return to teaching duties. The university had removed Levy from the classroom pending an investigation into alleged criticism of Gov. Jeff Landry.
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LSU general counsel Winston DeCuir will step down from his position, according to a copy of his resignation letter the Illuminator obtained Thursday.
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A group of LSU students held a protest Tuesday outside the Paul M. Hebert Law Center, demanding professor Ken Levy be reinstated following his removal from the classroom pending an investigation into alleged political comments he made.
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School leaders are hopeful federal funds can help them fill a major budget gap.
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An LSU law school professor has been removed from teaching classes for reportedly making political comments in the classroom, his attorney says.
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About two-thirds of the campus’s full-time workforce will be required to take at least a half day off unpaid every two weeks.