The Minimum Foundation Program Formula Task Force held its first meeting at the Capitol, beginning a review that could go considerably further than the annual adjustments typically made to the roughly $4 billion funding system.
AI:The Minimum Foundation Program Formula Task Force has convened at the state Capitol to begin a comprehensive review of Louisiana's $4 billion school funding system. Moving beyond standard annual adjustments, this task force aims to overhaul the entire formula used to allocate resources across the state's education budget. This fundamental restructuring represents a significant shift in how educational funds will be distributed among students and districts throughout Louisiana.Open
A team of engineers, foresters and scientists is helping the continent prepare for wildfires from a giant science park in Italy. Their arsenal includes satellites, weather models and expert analysis.
The ordeal has left fans forced to either miss out on a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity or scramble to find new tickets, often costing more and for worse seats.
The biggest World Cup ever starts this week. Laura Williamson, editor in chief of The Athletic, describes how sky-high prices, travel restrictions, politics and the Ebola outbreak are impacting fans.
The first-in-the-nation cash assistance program, which describes itself as “universal and unconditional,” has received more than $300 million in state and federal taxpayer funding since launching in Flint in 2024 and expanding to more than 60 Michigan communities
The failures of socialized medicine stem not from malice, but from inherent incentives: monopolistic structures, political allocation of resources, and suppressed innovation.
The race to build data centers across the U.S. is sparking intense backlash from Americans, and a new survey found people would rather live next to a nuclear power plant than a data center. NewsNation’s Rich Bodee has both sides.
