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 ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — Reading scores ...

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 ...

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 ...

Louisiana made big gains on a closely watched national test, with its 4th graders leading the country in reading progress and the state climbing to its highest spot ever in the national rankings.

Louisiana is ranked among the worst states when it comes to quality of education and education attainment. Currently, the ...