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Agendas and Materials for the 2020 January BESE Meetings
District 2 residents, Agendas and materials for the January 28, 2020, BESE Committee meetings, policy forum, and the January 29, 2020, BESE meeting have been posted. Tuesday, January 28, 2020 9:00 AM – Educator Effectiveness Committee meeting (AGENDA|MATERIALS) 10:00...
Agendas and materials for the 2019 December BESE Meetings
Dear District 2 residents, The Agendas and materials for the December 10, 2019, BESE Committee meetings; the December 10, 2019, public hearing for rulemaking; the December 11, 2019, joint BESE/Board of Regents meeting; and the December 11, 2019, BESE meeting have been...
Diversity, Community, and Warmth at Hoffman
Uptown Public School Series: Diversity, Community, and Warmth at Hoffman Posted by UptownMessenger.com at 11:58 amFeatured, recognition, schools, UptownMessenger.com Sep092019 In this second of our ten-essay series by parents of students at public schools Uptown, Anna...
The Right School for CJ
Uptown Public School Series: Excellence, Rigor, and Diversity of Options The Right School for CJ By Christopher Dobney, Parent In the first essay of this ten-part series by parents of students at public schools Uptown, Christopher Dobney writes about his son CJ’s time...
Part of the Family: Why My Children and I Love Andrew H. Wilson Charter School
Uptown Public School Series: Excellence, Rigor, and Diversity of Options In the third part of our ten-essay series by parents of students at public schools Uptown, Celeste Sparks writes about her children’s experience at Andrew H. Wilson Charter School. Uptown, like...
NOLA Public Schools Outperforms State on Student Progress
NEW ORLEANS - The Louisiana Department of Education released statewide progress data results and for the second year in a row NOLA Public schools are outperforming statewide averages for growth, specifically across all four sub-groups reported by the state. The...
Teacher Raises Win Final Passage From Louisiana Lawmakers
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana's public school teachers will get $1,000 pay raises next year and districts will get $39 million more to spend on operations. The House gave final passage to the school financing plan with a 103-0 vote, ending a stalemate between...
Number of Louisiana Graduates Enrolling in College Climbs to All-Time High
Nearly 5,000 More Graduates Enrolled in Two- and Four-Year Colleges in 2018 than in 2012 BATON ROUGE, LA—The Louisiana Department of Education, in partnership with the Louisiana Board of Regents, today announced a record 25,083 public high school graduates from the...
Class of 2018 Achieves Highest Graduation Outcomes in Louisiana History
Graduation Rate, College and Career Credential Attainment, TOPS Eligibility Reach All-Time High BATON ROUGE, LA—More Louisiana students than ever before graduated from high school in four years in 2018, according to results released today by the state’s Department of...
More then 3,000 Louisiana Students to Receive Paid, On-the-Job Training During Summer Months
BESE Approves 15 Additional Groups to Provide Summer Internships to High School Students BATON ROUGE, La. -- The Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) voted today to expand the Jump Start Summers program, affording more than 3,000 high school...