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A proposal to increase salaries for East Baton Rouge public school educators by $2,200, bringing starting teachers to $50,000 a year, comes as the neighboring district continues to boost pay

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 […]

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

When the East Baton Rouge Parish school board sent former Superintendent Sito Narcisse packing, one reason some board members cited for rejecting his contract renewal was that Narcisse had not

A month on the job, interim East Baton Rouge Parish School Superintendent Adam Smith shared early thoughts Saturday on where he may take the school system, broaching potentially controversial topics

Sito Narcisse officially stepped down and Adam Smith took over Tuesday night as superintendent of the East Baton Rouge Parish school system, but how long Smith remains in charge is

With several board members expressing concerns, the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board has rejected a proposal to hand over three low-performing neighborhood schools to a Colorado-based charter group, as

In a show of defiance, supporters of Sito Narcisse have begun organizing a community-wide fight to pressure the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board to keep Narcisse as their superintendent.