Instructional minute and other requirements have been waived, leaving school districts able to chose their last day of school.
"After the March 13 closure of Tulane University’s campus, we instructors spent a week moving classes online, while students returned home and settled. The question for me and my 28 far-flung students was what to do with a locally-focused environmental journalism class? We quickly turned our final writing project towards the historic crisis at hand."
Education will continue amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Edwards said.
High demand during the coronavirus crisis has caused prices to rise as much as 14 times the usual cost.
Access to technology and lack of it — often called the digital divide — have emerged as a critical issue in statewide school closures across the country.
DOC creates furlough panel to determine inmate releases.
"The coronavirus has disproportionately claimed African American lives nationwide, unmasking structural racism that continues to deepen disparities in healthcare trends and life outcomes across America."
Former-State Rep. Walt Leger, the new board chairman of the Convention Center, says the center will push forward with large, controversial developments despite ongoing coronavirus crisis.
Area healthcare workers develop faster testing methods, new ventilator techniques and participate in trials for potential treatments.
The announcement follows a request from state education leaders to cancel the remainder of the academic year.