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Overall, schools received 80 out of 150 points for the 2024 school year, a nearly two point gain. The score translates to a B letter grade.
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Louisiana’s plan to make all public school classrooms in the state post the Ten Commandments next year remains on hold under a federal appeals court ruling in New Orleans.
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The cash boost ensures schools will be “close to whole, if not whole, this school year,” despite the district’s budget error.
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Customers buy thousands of Thanksgiving Poor Boys each year–all for a good cause.
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New Orleans police say they're investigating after two people were killed and 10 others were wounded in two separate shootings along a parade route.
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Gov. Jeff Landry’s ambitious tax plan, which had previously encountered minimal resistance, hit its first bump on Thursday as lawmakers balked at applying sales taxes to more goods and services that are tax-free now.
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Avis Williams has been superintendent of the city’s nearly all-charter school system for just over two years. The district did not give a reason for her abrupt departure.
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An LSU student who is accused of threating to kill Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry has been arrested.
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The House continued Wednesday to revamp the state tax system, passing bills to cut business tax rates, eliminate credits for movie-making and historic preservation and, for the first time, tax personal use digital music, video games, audiobooks and movies.
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Former Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards has endorsed Sharon Weston Broome as she seeks her third term as mayor-president of East Baton Rouge Parish.
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A House tax committee voted Thursday to advance Gov. Jeff Landry’s proposal for a flat 3% personal income tax rate.
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The site of the 2019 Hard Rock Hotel collapse in downtown New Orleans could receive a historic landmark designation after city leaders officially asked a city commission to research the idea on Thursday.