school vouchers

Superintendent of Education John White is asking private schools to consider taking voucher students for free.

Parents who want to send their children to private school next year through the voucher program have until Feb. 27 to submit their applications.

The U.S. Justice Department says parents of Louisiana students attending private schools with taxpayer-funded tuition vouchers should not be allowed to intervene in a legal case linking the voucher issue to desegregation orders.

Justice contends school vouchers can impeded desegregation.

In a letter to House Speaker John Boehner, the department says the state has agreed to provide information to the federal government on the program.

A Louisiana judge has struck down Gov. Bobby Jindal's controversial school voucher program.

RUSTON, La. (AP) — A church-run school in Ruston is dividing its chapel into four classrooms and using the second floor of its gymnasium to hold 165 new students who have state tuition vouchers. Don Zeringue of the state fire marshal's office tells the Ruston Leader that plan and one for a building planned to hold even more students have been approved...

The program was put together and has been put out there for parents in certain schools.  The idea of school vouchers has been debated and is now a reality in Louisiana.  But is this something that you would like to be a part of?  Would you like to use one and get your child into a different school or are you satisfied with where your child is...

The Governor will sign a major education today.

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