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Einstein is the latest charter operator in recent years to reduce its capacity, citing low enrollment, as New Orleans’ birth rate has declined and families have left the city.

In February, the district and state asked the court to end the monitoring, arguing they had fulfilled the terms of the settlement. The Southern Poverty Law Center, which represents parents in the related lawsuit, is challenging the request.

Some Head Start providers in Louisiana have taken out loans to keep operating if the government shutdown stretches into its second month.

Louisiana could join a Florida-led push to limit the power of existing higher education accreditors.

A cash transfer program for high schoolers resulted in better attendance and more financial literacy, but no improvement in grades.

A panel of three federal appellate judges has ruled that a Louisiana law requiring the Ten Commandments to be posted in each of the state’s public school classrooms is unconstitutional.

The Trump administration has vowed to lift more desegregation plans from the 1960s. Civil rights activists say it would leave families with little recourse when they face discrimination.

The Louisiana Senate president said his chamber will dramatically scale back funding for the new private school voucher program from what Gov. Jeff Landry and the House of Representatives have pledged.

The Justice Department is lifting a school desegregation order in Louisiana dating to the Civil Rights Movement, calling its continued existence a “historical wrong” and suggesting that others across the South should be eliminated.

Legislators are under pressure to find money to replace $2,000 and $1,000 stipends that public school teachers and support staff, respectively, have received for the past two years.