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(The Center Square) – Louisiana lawmakers in both chambers on Thursday approved $27.6 million in education spending that goes beyond the main state allocation for schools, though several members said they were disappointed school districts weren’t spending more of the available dollars. During the late 1990s, the Legislature used money from a state settlement with tobacco companies to create the Education Excellence Fund. The money is divided into two pots. Some goes into investment a...

QU hosts Foundation Program’s 2nd Virtual Academic Excellence Week  13 Dec 2020 - 9:34 The Peninsula Doha: Under the Deanship of General Studies, Qatar University’s (QU) Foundation Program organised its ‘2nd Virtual Academic Excellence Week’ recently.  The event aimed at exchanging expertise and good educational practices of English Language Teaching (ELT) under the COVID-19 pandemic situation. It also included training workshops focusing on innovative methods of excellence that enh...

LUTCHER — The pending closure of the Shell Oil refinery in Convent, an industrial mainstay and top employer in St. James Parish, could cost the local public school district $13.9 million over the next year and a half and change the way schools operate over an even longer term. While the scenario presented to school board members Tuesday night represented a worst-case scenario, its possible that some district employees could lose their jobs, and student-teacher ratios could take a hit. I...