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Quin Hillyer: Legislators should listen to huge demand for LA GATOR Scholarships
Advocate columnist Quin Hillyer took to the editorial page Sunday to highlight the nearly 40,000 [...]
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LA GATOR: 40,000 Louisiana Families Await Funding for A School That Fits
“When will we know if LA GATOR is funded and my child is approved?” This is the question we’re [...]
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New K-12 School Transparency Project: See How Public School Funding is Being Used to Educate Students Across Louisiana
How the government spends money matters. It matters because it’s the people’s money, given to meet [...]
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Expanding Course Options for Louisiana Public School Students: What Parents Need to Know
As a parent, you want your child to have every opportunity to succeed—whether that means getting [...]
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Education Freedom Opponents Keep Recycling Tired Old Arguments
A recent article in The Advocate and nola.com cast doubt on whether the new LA GATOR Scholarship [...]
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“Pleased, But Not Satisfied:” Louisiana Students Climb in National Education Rankings
It’s carnival season in Louisiana, and it seems that everywhere you turn, there’s a celebration. [...]
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Why Are Louisiana’s Public School Leaders Still Not Spending the Money They’ve Been Allocated to Help Students Learn?
We’ve written about this before—millions of dollars from state coffers allocated to Louisiana high [...]
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Louisiana Must Prioritize Resources and Fulfill Education Promise to Families
This spring, Governor Landry and the Louisiana Legislature took a tremendous step forward in [...]
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How Is Louisiana’s K-12 Education Funding Being Spent?
National education researcher Mark Schneider from American Enterprise Institute recently wrote [...]
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Collective Bargaining in St. Tammany Public Schools: Some Improvements, but Still a Bad Deal
On August 8, 2024, the St. Tammany Parish School Board voted to accept a new collective bargaining [...]
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2024 LEAP Scores Announced, Disappointing Reactions from School Leaders
Last week, the Louisiana Department of Education (LDOE) released the results of the 2024 state LEAP [...]
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BESE Adopts Improved K-12 Education Accountability System; New “Study Group” Aims to Dismantle It
Earlier this month, Louisiana’s State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) [...]
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Louisiana Legislature Passes Education Savings Accounts. What’s Next?
After 4 years and 12 separate bills and legislative resolutions, the Louisiana Legislature has [...]
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Why Can’t All School Requirements Be the Same?
It’s a question we’ve been hearing a lot lately from lawmakers as they debate education bills in [...]
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Mythbuster: ESAs Help, Not Harm, Students, Schools, and Communities
It’s no secret that Louisiana’s state leaders have been eyeing what several other states have given [...]
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