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The Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) is an administrative policy-making body for elementary and secondary schools in the U.S. state of Louisiana. It was created in the 1973 Louisiana Constitutional Convention, called by then Governor Edwin W. Edwards , and codified as Article VIII of the resulting document, the 1974 ...
Louisiana Department of Education (LADOE) is a state agency of Louisiana, United States. It manages the state's school districts. It is headquartered in the Claiborne Building at 1201 North 3rd Street in Baton Rouge. [1] [2] On a previous occasion the department was headquartered at 626 North 4th Street in Baton Rouge. [3]
The Orleans Parish School Board (OPSB), branded as NOLA Public Schools, governs the public school system that serves New Orleans, Louisiana. It includes the entirety of Orleans Parish, coterminous with the city of New Orleans. [3] The OPSB directly administers 6 schools and has granted charters to another 18.
This resulted in Louisiana students in kindergarten through third grade improving their reading proficiency by 2.3 percentage points on a literacy screener given at the beginning of this school year.
All public classrooms in Louisiana, from kindergarten to state-funded universities, will soon feature displays of the Ten Commandments, per a new law signed by Governor Jeff Landry on June 20.
A federal judge has temporarily blocked a Louisiana law that would have required public schools statewide to display the Ten Commandments in their classrooms by Jan. 1. U.S. District Judge John W ...
In mid-1874, a congressional civil rights bill removed from the constitution the clause of desegregated schools, thus weakening the position of New Orleans's burgeoning desegregated public school system. The Louisiana constitution was rewritten in 1879 to once again allow for segregated public institutions. In 1898, another change banned ...
A Louisiana federal judge has said five school systems will have to wait to post the Ten Commandments in classrooms until at least Nov. 15 as the case questioning the constitutionality of the ...