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Louisiana teacher pay starts higher than peers, but falls

December 12, 2020 - 03:30 PM BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana’s public school teachers start off with salaries better than average, but plummet in the rankings for the rest of their careers, according to new information comparing teacher pay across the South. The average starting pre-tax salary — $40,400 per...

Lusher Senior advance in Google Doodle competition to qualify for scholarship

September 02, 2020 - 04:02 PM NEW ORLEANS, La. -- A New Orleans high school senior could see her art featured as a Google Doodle. Morrah Burton-Edwards was selected as the Louisiana winner for the 12th annual Doodle for Google competition. She in now one of the five national finalists in the 10-12th grade category. The Lusher H...

Wright & Gray Law Firm awards scholarships to five college freshmen

August 04, 2020 - 10:25 AM NEW ORLEANS, LA. (sponsored) - Wright & Gray Personal Injury Law Firm is pleased to announce its annual scholarship recipients for high school graduates entering their freshmen year in college. Five students from high schools in Orleans and Jefferson Parishes were awarded 500 dollar scholar...

College student hopes to make traffic stops safer and easier with the "safety pouch"

August 01, 2020 - 06:23 PM New Orleans (WTDN) -- During a business seminar class at Loyola University in New Orleans, David Price was challenged to come up with a project that would bring about a societal change that he wanted to see. He thought back to a time when he was 16 years old and his parent had "the talk" with him wh...

NOLA Public Schools re-opens with distance learning

July 26, 2020 - 08:21 PM A Message From NOLA-PS Superintendent Dr. Henderson Lewis, Jr. INSIDE NOLA PUBLIC SCHOOLS July 26, 2020 Dear Members of the NOLA-PS Community, One thing about this year that is for certain, is that it has been filled with un...

St. Augustine High School receives largest one time donation from Twitter CEO

June 25, 2020 - 02:47 PM NEW ORLEANS, LA. – Jack Dorsey, co-founder and CEO of Twitter and Square, has awarded St. Augustine High School in New Orleans a $1.5 million gift through Dorsey’s #StartSmall initiative. Dorsey’s gift marks the largest one-time donation ever made to the school. The gift highlights...

Local Black-led charter schools observe Juneteenth as annual holiday

June 19, 2020 - 12:56 PM NEW ORLEANS, La — A number of local Black-led charter schools and charter management organizations have announced that they will celebrate and observe Juneteenth, beginning this year. The collaborative goal of recognizing this significant day is for it to serve as a reminder of the i...

Prospective LSU student won't be enrolled after racial slur

June 16, 2020 - 08:53 AM BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A student who was seen in a video using a racial slur and had also planned to attend Louisiana State University will not be enrolled in the school this fall. The university in Baton Rouge gave the update by replying to several tweets Monday night. The one-sentence stat...

Loyola-New Orleans president apologizes after racism alleged

June 09, 2020 - 01:34 PM NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The president of Loyola University of New Orleans has apologized for the way the school handled allegations that the former head of its communications department mistreated black and LGBTQ students and showed bias against them. Loyola University President Tania Tetlow also ...

Lyric Williams overcomes autism to be a 2020 honor graduate

June 06, 2020 - 12:05 PM Casey Ferrand (WTDN)-- The day has finally come for the Abramson Sci Academy's graduating class to walk across the stage. Instead of having their graduation in an arena as planned, they will each walk across a temporary stage outside of their school during the drive thru graduation that school leade...

Education

Louisiana teacher pay starts higher than peers, but falls

Lusher Senior advance in Google Doodle competition to qualify for scholarship

Wright & Gray Law Firm awards scholarships to five college freshmen

College student hopes to make traffic stops safer and easier with the "safety pouch"

NOLA Public Schools re-opens with distance learning

St. Augustine High School receives largest one time donation from Twitter CEO

Local Black-led charter schools observe Juneteenth as annual holiday

Prospective LSU student won't be enrolled after racial slur

Loyola-New Orleans president apologizes after racism alleged

Lyric Williams overcomes autism to be a 2020 honor graduate

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