education

Should public school students be required to wear uniforms to school? That is a question that is before the House Committee on Education today.

Governor John Bel Edwards addressed the regular session of the Louisiana Legislature yesterday. Besides the budget gap and TOPS, there are some other issues the Governor would like to see legislators tackle.

The state's BESE Board has approved changes that will slowly start to remove the Common Core policy from state's education curriculum.

The school district unveils its new online registration for child care and Pre-K today.

The House Appropriations committee has suggested budget cuts that would affect funding for public schools. The cuts were even deeper than what the Governor wanted.

Onlyinyourstate.com has recently put together the "Twelve Smartest Cities In Louisiana". The cities on this list might not be what you expect if you're thinking the bigger cities are going to rule this list. If you're feeling like you've been needing more intellectual conversation in your life, you'll want to make a visit to some of these places, and you might not need to travel very far.

Less than 24 hours after it was announced that all TOPS payments would be suspended indefinitely, LOSFA has announced that it would resume partial payments of TOPS scholarships.

Landry filed papers Monday asking the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to let him take over the lawsuit where Jindal left off.

Higher education is on the budget chopping block but lower schools will be spared the wrath of the budget cutting knife according to Governor Edwards.

For one generation, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy was an event that was forever tied to the moment it happened. For my generation, one such event was the Challenger disaster.

Where do the rights of a professor end and the rights of a student begin? Are educators supposed to teach for real world situations or are they highly educated baby sitters? A fired LSU professor is taking the issue to court.

On behalf of everyone here at 97.3 The Dawg, we'd like to congratulate all of our fine educators and salute the finalists and winners from last night's wonderful evening.

I stumbled on this list of 'Manners Every Good and Decent Person Should Know' and it got me wondering...

Louisiana schools are consistently under performing according to a new report issued by Education Week Magazine.

You may, or may not remember George Carlin's "Seven Words You Can't Say On TV" routine, depending, perhaps, on your age. Lake Superior State University, in northern Michigan has issued its annual list of banned words. These words aren't banned for the same reasons as those on Carlin's infamous list.

The State Department of Education has issued report cards for Louisiana Schools. How well did the school your child attends do? We have that report card waiting for you to see.

After hundreds of nominations, the 16 finalists have been identified in the four categories.

The Louisiana Department of Education has released their evaluation grades for Acadiana area high schools for the 2014-2015 school year.

The newly adopted scale will allow for Louisiana students' performance to be compared with students in 10 other states and in Washington, D.C.

The Louisiana Board of Education has announced a 300-percent enrollment increase for the state's school choice programs since 2012.