A proposal to strengthen educator background checks and limit confidentiality agreements between schools and teachers advanced Thursday. The House Education Committee added the proposed changes to a ...

Proposals to repeal the state’s ISTEP test and strengthen teacher background checks cleared the General Assembly on the final day of the 2016 session and are now on their way to Gov. Mike Pence.

The national teachers’ unions are in a bit of a squeeze play on the issue of teacher background checks: They’re for the concept in principle, but twitchy on how a recent House-passed proposal might ...

Delays in the processing of criminal background checks for teachers are aggravating Louisiana's educator shortage, state officials say. Cade Brumley, state superintendent of education, said when he ...

Louisiana educators will soon have to undergo a criminal background check before they can receive their teaching license in a move intended to make it more difficult for would-be teachers with prior ...