This week BESE had an important discussion about our expectations for students. This one dealt with high school graduation in the world of COVID. The issues at the heart of it are worth considering. Louisiana schools, students, and educators have been through two years of COVID. It closed school early in 2020, caused a shaky […]

A new national survey on public education provides some food for thought for Louisiana. It finds that people across the country believe education is an important priority and they think some major changes are required to improve student achievement. The poll results are reported by the national education reform group The 74, which takes its […]

Until somewhat recently, the coming of another legislative session wasn’t something higher education officials were exactly looking forward to. For a period of nearly a decade beginning around 2008, legislative sessions meant budget cuts. In recent years, that’s begun to change, and this year’s session looks to be another one marked by a return to […]

CABL is pleased to announce its 2022 class of Leadership Louisiana. Through a highly-competitive process, 54 current and emerging leaders from across the state were chosen to participate in this year’s cohort. This marks the program’s 34th year boasting a diverse group of more than 1,400 alumni who are leaders from a cross-section of sectors […]

While the talk of the Capitol these days may be about the Legislature’s override of the governor’s veto of the new congressional districts maps, there is a lot of substantive legislation that’s been introduced this session, particularly in the area of education. This isn’t exactly an “education” session, but there are a lot of significant […]

Overall, this doesn’t look like a legislative session of big new policy proposals, but there are some good ideas emerging and efforts to make meaningful investments in important areas. One that’s getting some positive attention is early education. In the first week of the session lawmakers in the Senate advanced a bill to make permanent […]

The 2022 regular legislative session gets underway Monday and what should citizens expect? Well, perhaps the best way to think about what’s ahead is to take a look back. Even before Gov. John Bel Edwards vetoed the recently-passed Congressional redistricting maps, the session was already shaping up to be an experience of déjà vu. Now […]

There are a few things everyone knows about redistricting. It happens every 10 years to reflect changes in population. There is a concept called one person, one vote, which basically means every district must have roughly the same number of people in it. And it is a politically-charged process that tends to pit different groups […]

There is a lot of discussion in education circles about dual enrollment – the ability of students to earn college credits while still in high school. Participation in dual enrollment programs in Louisiana has risen in recent years, but it’s still far short of what education leaders would like it to be. A new dual […]

This week Governor John Bel Edwards released his executive budget proposal for the coming year along with his priorities for how to spend billions of federal COVID relief funds and a pile of new state money. At this point the administration is only making recommendations and the Legislature will ultimately decide how the money will […]