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A Baton Rouge industrial plant expanding its facility will be exempt from paying millions of dollars in property taxes to the city-parish government and school system.

Across the board, pay for teachers and support staff was unsatisfactory.

BATON ROUGE - The East Baton Rouge School Board started running the numbers for the upcoming year’s budget  in the first of four meetings.

As schools close for the summer, local organizations are raising awareness about the programs available to the youth.

A recent decision by the Louisiana Supreme Court handed a decisive win to backers of a long-running campaign to create a new, overwhelmingly white Baton Rouge-area school system, further concentrating poverty in the remaining, majority-Black part of the district. When finalized, the secession will likely cost East Baton Rouge Parish Public Schools 10,000 students and […]

ST. GEORGE - Some East Baton Rouge Parish School System properties fall within the future City of St. George, which has folks asking whether those properties will change hands when a new community school district is developed. 

BATON ROUGE - After the Louisiana Supreme Court ruled in favor for the incorporation of the city of St. George, the future incorporation is still creating a divide in opinions from leaders.

BATON ROUGE — A nonbinding resolution to oppose a state bill that could allow for the creation of a school district in the proposed City of St. George was passed by the East Baton Rouge School Board at their Thursday meeting.

Opposition is growing to legislation that supporters say would simplify the overly complicated process of creating new school districts but that detractors say is a backdoor way of forming a

The East Baton Rouge Parish School Board is considering a resolution opposing legislation that seeks to remove legal barriers that make it very hard to create new public school districts