BY MATTHEW ALBRIGHT | Staff writer Baton Rouge school employees are underpaid, a big new study has found. The superintendent says the study is evidence that teachers, secretaries, cafeteria workers and others should get a big raise. This story runs through how salaries stack up — and what it would take for the district to give the raises the study calls for. In 1838, the Jesuit leaders of Georgetown University sold 272 enslaved people to two Louisiana sugarcane planters, one of whom became the governor. A treasure trove of documents and stories tell their stories, which show how slavery insinuated itself throughout our state and country, from government to churches to schools. Now there's a museum in Donaldsonville dedicated to telling those stories. Are you a hunter or fisherman? If so, there have been important changes to how hunting and fishing licenses work in Louisiana. Here's a rundown of what you need to know. |