Following the Civil War, many Southern states administered literacy tests to prospective voters. However, some states enacted a grandfather clause in the early 1890s. The clause waived literacy tests ...

Louisiana’s top public school policymakers Tuesday spurned a push from Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley to move ahead with creation of a literacy-focused accountability system for the state’s ...

Over several years, Louisiana has methodically revamped how kids are taught to read. Now, the work appears to be paying off: While students in nearly every other state made little to no reading ...

Every time an election looms, Baton Rouge resident Ashley Shelton notices the red flags — the signs sprinkled around the city and other parts of Louisiana that give the wrong information about when ...

The recent Supreme Court decision on the 1965 Voting Rights Act struck down federal oversight of jurisdictions that have a history of using a "test or device" to impede enfranchisement. After the end ...

BATON ROUGE — The Senate voted 29-0 Thursday to require public schools to create and develop a literary assessment for every K-3 student. “Every child should be reading before they leave the third ...

The Louisiana Department of Education announced Tuesday it was awarded $15 million to lead a study on the increasing impact ...

In a recent K-12 Study Group meeting held on Tuesday, Louisiana educators expressed growing concerns about the overwhelming amount of standardized testing imposed on students, which they argue ...