Patrick Wall

3 days ago | nola.com | Elyse Carmosino |Patrick Wall

Louisiana would spend nearly $200 million on one-time pay stipends for public school teachers and other school employees next school year under a proposed budget advanced by the House Appropriations Committee on Monday, essentially keeping eduator pay flat as lawmakers explore ways to fund long-term raises. The spending plan, which the full House is expected to vote on Thursday, also includes $93.5 million that Gov.

4 days ago | nola.com | Patrick Wall |Jeff Adelson

Jacqueline McCardie wants badly to put her grandson in a new school. The public elementary that 11-year-old Jah’Derrick attends is crowded and outdated, and the baby-faced fourth grader says he gets bullied. But McCardie, 62, is a single guardian on a fixed income, so her only real option is the local public school in Winnfield, the small town in north-central Louisiana where they live.

6 days ago | nola.com | Patrick Wall

Norman C. Francis, the trailblazing former president of Xavier University of Louisiana, continues to leave his mark on the storied New Orleans institution as it celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. On Friday, the school dedicated a bronze statue of Francis, who led the nation’s only historically Black and Catholic university for nearly 50 years until his retirement in 2015.

2 weeks ago | nola.com | Patrick Wall

Since taking the reins of Louisiana’s flagship university four years ago, LSU President William Tate IV has celebrated some big wins. The public university shattered enrollment records last fall, with nearly 42,000 students across its eight campuses and online and its highest-achieving class of incoming freshmen ever.

3 weeks ago | nola.com | Patrick Wall

As Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry seeks nearly $94 million for a program to subsidize students’ private education, a billionaire-backed advocacy group will run a television ad starting Sunday that targets state lawmakers who have challenged Landry’s plan. Club for Growth, a national group that promotes school vouchers and other conservative priorities, is paying for the ad and a related outreach campaign.