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• School board member wants colleagues to attend required diversity class amid meeting controversy

  June 22, 2020 3:23 PM

  BATON ROUGE – Amid calls for a school board member to resign following controversial comments and being seen shopping online during a recent school board meeting, colleagues are pushing forward with a plan to enroll members in a race education course. School board member Michael Gaudet said he will... more »

• 29 students ticketed after brawl at area high school

  August 24, 2019 1:31 PM

  HAMMOND – Twenty-nine students were ticketed after a brawl at Hammond High Magnet School this week. The Daily Star newspaper reported the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office said the group of kids were ticketed for disturbing the peace. The incident happened Thursday. No one was hurt, authorities said. ... more »

• Student arrested for allegedly bringing gun to school

  March 23, 2019 5:06 PM

  BATON ROUGE- Police have arrested a high school student for reportedly carrying a gun on Mckinley High's campus. Kenan Hayes, 19, is charged with carrying firearm/dangerous weapon on school property and having a firearm in a firearm free zone. The incident occurred Thursday at Mckinley High School. According... more »

• St. Helena ends long-standing school desegregation case

  March 12, 2018 5:02 PM

  GREENSBURG – The state's longest-running school desegregation case has ended, removing the St. Helena Parish public school system from the eyes of the federal government. Federal authorities have been involved in numerous Louisiana public school system desegregation plans for decades. The issue over equality in St. Helena Parish goes... more »

• School district: Nothing questionable in reporting of gun at school Play Video

  February 26, 2018 3:37 PM

  BATON ROUGE – Public relations officials with the East Baton Rouge Parish School System said Monday afternoon, all protocols were followed when a teacher found an unloaded gun in the backpack of a student at Wedgewood Elementary Friday. The gun was discovered as students were packing their bags for... more »

• Knock Knock Children's Museum opens Tuesday Play Video

  August 22, 2017 10:35 AM

  BATON ROUGE - The Baton Rouge area's newest museum is ready to open its doors to residents and their children. The Knock Knock Children's Museum is holding a ribbon cutting ceremony and grand opening Tuesday morning. According to a news release, Knock Knock is designed as a 26,000... more »

• Mayor-President Broome announces launch of childhood development program

  August 14, 2017 12:31 PM

  BATON ROUGE — Last week, Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome announced the launch of her Cradle to K initiative. A program she says is part of her ongoing commitment to education at all stages of life. The program focuses on early childhood development and school readiness for children up to... more »

• Sex tape scandal, other issues frustrate some Southern supporters Play Video

  June 23, 2017 5:55 PM

  BATON ROUGE – A Southern University alumnus and community news and opinion website publisher chastised the school's administration for its handling of mounting issues on campus – most recently a sex tape purportedly leaked amid a scandal involving a high-ranking campus official and an underling. BREAKING: Southern announced it... more »

• Broome to host city-wide round table discussion on education

  March 17, 2017 5:57 PM

  BATON ROUGE – Mayor-President Sharon West Broome is hosting a city-wide round table discussion with education stakeholders to help close the education gap in the community. The round table will be held on March 21 and will include East Baton Rouge Parish Superintendent Dr. Warren Drake, East Baton Rouge... more »

• sLocal app allows users discounts while giving back to schools Play Video

  November 25, 2016 8:11 PM

  BATON ROUGE – sLocal, an app dedicated to giving money back to education, launched in Baton Rouge just three weeks ago and the team hopes it will benefit several schools locally, statewide and even nationally. The sLocal app, with more than two years of development, allows businesses to sign... more »

• Springfield HS reopens after flood Play Video

  October 3, 2016 7:20 PM

  SPRINGFIELD - Students returned to Springfield High School Monday for the first time since the August flood. "It's not complete, like I said we got a lot of boxes laying around, we got some classrooms without doors on them some... but we're at home cause we're here," principal Spencer... more »

• EBR Schools won't reopen until after Labor Day

  August 22, 2016 7:48 PM

  BATON ROUGE - The East Baton Rouge Parish School System pushed the return of school back to September 6th, the district announced Monday. Originally, officials hoped to open schools this week but decided the stress on the system was too great. Numerous campuses were flooded and school buses took... more »

• School board to revisit Lee HS naming issue later Play Video

  June 2, 2016 10:10 PM

  BATON ROUGE - An East Baton Rouge Parish School Board committee decided not to pursue renaming Lee High School Thursday night. The issue was first reported by WBRZ and WBRZ.com earlier in the week when the school board agenda was released. At a separate meeting Tuesday, a committee... more »

• Case surrounding school raid closed

  January 5, 2016 11:12 PM

  BATON ROUGE- A criminal investigation into the operator of Kenilworth Science and Technology School, a charter school on Boone Avenue, has been closed. The WBRZ Investigative Unit learned the U.S. Attorneys Office closed its inquiry into the school. Letters between the school's attorneys and authorities confirmed the investigation is... more »