Louisiana School Cuts Show Which Services Go First When Budgets Shrink

Louisiana took $168 million from school operating budgets for teacher stipends. The executive order protecting schools named four categories. School therapists, reading specialists, and counselors were not among them. One parish’s specialist caseload rose 35 percent in three years. Here is what that means for your child’s services.

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Louisiana School Cuts Show Which Services Go First When Budgets Shrink

Louisiana took $168 million from school operating budgets for teacher stipends. The executive order protecting schools named four categories. School therapists, reading specialists, and counselors were not among them. One parish’s specialist caseload rose 35 percent in three years. Here is what that means for your child’s services.

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FDA Decision July 24 on New ADHD Drug: What the Numbers Show

The FDA rules July 24 on centanafadine, the first new-mechanism non-stimulant ADHD drug in decades. Phase 3 trials show it addresses both ADHD symptoms and anxiety. Here is what the numbers show, what they don’t, and why that distinction matters for your child.

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Schools Are Racing to Teach AI While Reading Scores Keep Falling

The EU and OECD handed every school a 19-competence AI literacy blueprint. Its core asks — evaluate AI outputs, detect bias, know when not to use AI — are reading and reasoning skills. With 40 percent of US fourth graders below the Basic reading benchmark, the foundation question is more urgent than the technology question.

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