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Schools are rethinking whether every student needs a laptop
2+ week, 3+ day ago (1256+ words) Read Our 2025 Impact Report When the COVID-19 pandemic forced in-person classroom instruction to go virtual, students suddenly needed to have their own laptops or tablets in order to interact with teachers and complete assignments. While most schools resumed in-person classes…...
Before Teacher Shield is needed, provide resources to prevent aggression
2+ week, 4+ day ago (980+ words) Read Our 2025 Impact Report At the close of Louisiana’s contentious legislative session, House Bill 283, also known as Teacher Shield, passed the House unanimously, 98-0. Introduced by Rep. Candace Newell (D-New Orleans), a former school teacher, the bill is part of a…...
Industrial pollution linked to learning disabilities in New Orleans area
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (531+ words) Read Our 2025 Impact Report For decades, parents and educators across the Greater New Orleans area have raised concerns about children who grow up near petrochemical facilities and refineries. An increasing number of children struggle with learning challenges, behavioral concerns, and…...
90% of Louisiana foster youth face re-victimization. One senator believes that the state could do better by abolishing DCFS altogether.
4+ mon, 1+ day ago (1402+ words) This is part 3 of the series, Before the Record: The Pipelines, which examines the policies and practices that criminalize girls When the banging starts, the clock reads 11:34 p.m. Shauna listened to her mother, who scrambled to the door, with a voice…...
Who’s doing child welfare better than Louisiana? Here’s the answer.
4+ mon, 4+ week ago (600+ words) This story was originally published by the Louisiana Illuminator. Confronted with the failure of the Department of Children and Family Services, lawmakers and administrators in Louisiana have responded the way they do in most states: They slapped a child’s name…...
New Orleans brings back the house call, sending nurses to visit newborns and moms
6+ mon, 4+ hour ago (1552+ words) When Lisa Bonfield gave birth to daughter Adele in late November, she was thrust into the new world of parenting, and faced an onslaught of challenges and skills to learn: breastfeeding, diapering, sleep routines, colic, crying, and all the little…...
My mom showed her support by bringing me a sweater.
6+ mon, 2+ week ago (1049+ words) I was born in Brazil. And my mom moved here with me to New Orleans and I’ve always been her voice. I’m an only child. And I’m the one that learned English faster. So I had to speak up for…...
When a parent goes to prison, a child pays the price
9+ mon, 3+ week ago (1127+ words) My college graduation should have been one of the happiest days of my life. Instead, it was bittersweet. My dad, serving a life sentence, couldn’t be there to watch me walk across the stage. Today, there are 94,000 Louisiana children under…...
Hoping to distract displaced Katrina children with cameras, she ended up launching a nonprofit
11+ mon, 4+ week ago (386+ words) Danette Vincent worked and prepared for a year, leading up to Friday; the 20th anniversary of the storm that forever changed New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Vincent, a New Orleans native, ended up in Dallas, where she still lives....