School Funding

Creating the proposed district could deal a blow to East Baton Rouge Parish schools, sapping students and public funding.

With President Donald Trump slashing the federal education budget, Louisiana school superintendents are scrambling to determine if they will lose any of the $2.7 billion in federal K-12 funding that has supported local school districts for years.

In New Orleans, many families are living paycheck to paycheck. So when the start of the school year comes around, the added cost of returning to the…

Public schools get a large portion of their funding from local property taxes — that's taxes paid on homes and businesses, including big factories. But…