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Strong public pushback may be giving the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education second thoughts about proposed new rules that would provide a path for students to gain high school

Strong public pushback may be giving the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education second thoughts about proposed new rules that would provide a path for students to gain high school

While the policy was rejected for students statewide, BESE did approve waivers for the roughly two dozen school districts affected by Hurricane Ida.

A proposal to allow high school seniors statewide who have failed to reach graduation requirements to do so by meeting other, easier standards — an idea aimed at helping students whose performance suffered because of the coronavirus pandemic — was rejected Thursday by the state's education board.

The Louisiana Legislature convenes at 5 p.m. Tuesday to begin a redistricting session to account for population changes in the state since 2010.

Lawmakers begin a Louisiana redistricting session to account for population changes in the state over the past 10 years.

BATON ROUGE, La. - Louisianas top school board will soon decide whether to defy Gov. John Bel Edwards and let school districts decide if public school students should be forced

BATON ROUGE, La. - Louisianas top school board will soon decide whether to defy Gov. John Bel Edwards and let school districts decide if public school students should be forced