education

Earlier this week, five states announced plans to add a minimum of 300 extra hours to molding young minds in the classroom next year in hopes of strengthening the American student performance.

Lawmakers in Texas are exploring affordable-education options for people under the financial hammer of the nation’s exploding tuition rates. The most controversial option is a bachelor’s degree for $10,000, which would cover tuition costs and textbooks.

Pre-kindergarten education and readiness is becoming a priority in Louisiana.

A vote to make a major change across the state.

The arguments for the lawsuit were meant to be this Monday, but have now been re-scheduled.

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) released its Education at a Glance 2012 report, and two of its conclusions jumped out at us: 1) countries that spend more on education tend to have more highly educated populations, and 2) the more educated you are, the more likely you are to be employed. While that may not sound too surprising, it’s an important reminder of just how

The groups behind the lawsuit are stating that the new law is unconstitutional.

"Free To Learn" is a fund-raising campaign to benefit Special Olympics and can help one family pay for education expenses.

It was approved by a 13 to 5 vote Wednesday night.

Governor Jindal is prepared for the new legislative session and has his priorities laid out.

LEAP testing starts next week.

The head of the Louisiana Federation of Teachers union is calling the proposal unconstitutional.

Dr. Pat Cooper, superintendent of Lafayette Parish Public Schools, says he is extremely encouraged by this week's education summit.

Louisiana's First Lady says thank you to a former U.S. First Lady. Laura Bush, through her foundation for America's Libraries, created the Gulf Coast School Library Recovery Initiative in 2006 to aid hurricane-affected school libraries.

School Superintendents from around the state will be meeting with John White, the State Superintendent.

The new Superintendent of Louisiana's Schools, John White, joined KPEL to outline his plans.

Today marks the start of the Leadership for Change 2012 Louisiana Education Summit in Baton Rouge.

A state teachers' union giving its own ideas on education reforms. Louisiana Association of Educators President Joyce Haynes says the group is against many of Governor Jindal's reform plans. She says they are against new teacher performance reviews that include using students' standardized test scores as half a teacher's evaluation...

Governor Bobby Jindal issued a fiery response to the Times-Picayune's story dealing with education.

Governor Bobby Jindal taking issue with a recent editorial published in the Daily Advertiser. The Jindal Administration blasting the newspaper this afternoon.