Laura Cassidy co-founded Louisiana Key Academy as a tuition-free charter school so students could attend regardless of their family’s income. Credit: Kathleen Flynn for The Hechinger Report The ...

A charter school in Baton Rouge that focuses on educating students with dyslexia is petitioning the state to let it add a high school despite the chronic low proficiency rates of its students.

After more than a decade on Government Street, Louisiana Key Academy is moving across Baton Rouge to take over the campus of a private school that closed in 2022. The charter school, which caters to ...

Several weeks ago, I wrote a column about dyslexia and the fact that it is very often misdiagnosed or not diagnosed at all, especially in poor and minority students. I also wrote about Louisiana Key ...

Melissa Towles noticed something was off with her son Jake’s reading skills in kindergarten. In first grade, his teacher told her that after Christmas break students would be expected to read tests by ...

A charter school for children with dyslexia was given the green light to open a new location in Jefferson Parish this week after the state’s Board of Education approved the move despite debate over ...