BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — A former Louisiana Department of Education employee pleaded guilty to a conspiracy to commit wire fraud charge tied to a scheme to defraud the federal government.

The Louisiana Department of Education (LDOE) was awarded $13.5 million from the federal government for charter schools.

As state director for EdTrust-Louisiana — and a proud product of our Louisiana school system — I am deeply alarmed by the federal government’s recent actions to dismantle the U.S. Department of ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — When the Justice Department lifted a school desegregation order in Louisiana this week, officials called its continued existence a “historical wrong” and suggested that others dating ...

The Trump administration is giving states 10 days to certify that schools are not engaged in what it considers illegal practices related to diversity, equity and inclusion — an order that could ...

U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon visited a Baton Rouge elementary school on Monday morning to praise Louisiana's improved reading scores, her first stop on a cross-country tour as the Trump ...

Louisiana’s education policymakers want schools to embrace the use of artificial intelligence, drawing cheers from some tech-industry titans but raising alarms among education experts who say the hype ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon traveled to Louisiana Monday to visit a Baton Rouge school as the first stop on a national tour. The Louisiana Department ...