A federal appeals court has struck down Louisiana’s law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public school and university classrooms, calling it “plainly unconstitutional” in a ruling issued Friday. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld a lower court’s 2024 decision blocking House Bill 71, which mandated the religious text […]
This week, the U.S. Department of Justice quietly closed the book on one of Louisiana’s longest-standing school desegregation orders—first issued in 1966 to Plaquemines Parish, a place whose history of racial exclusion was once so notorious it had a name: Leander Perez. The DOJ framed the decision as “correcting a historical wrong.” But let’s call […]
Louisiana is sabotaging its own future by refusing to pay teachers a living wage. We live in a state where politicians bend over backward to hand out tax breaks to corporations, yet plead poverty when it comes time to fund our public schools. Teachers are expected to be miracle workers—educating our children, managing overcrowded classrooms, […]
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