College classes for all high schoolers in EBR?

with Jennifer Wadsworth | Assistant metro editor

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College classes for all high school kids? Or just more?

A pilot program at Glen Oaks High is setting the stage for the East Baton Rouge Parish school system to expand dual enrollment at all of its high schools. It’s an experiment that aims to show how, with the right help, all ninth-through-12th-graders are up for the challenge of college-level work and, ideally, rack up enough credits to earn an associate's degree by the time they graduate high school.

Our education reporter Charles Lussier sat in on one of the dual enrollment classes at Glen Oaks to get a better sense of what they're like. Here's his report.

'Crippling' caseloads at child welfare agency

Faced with skyrocketing caseloads and meager salaries, almost half of the frontline social service workers at DCFS quit last year, hampering Louisiana’s ability to care for its most vulnerable residents at a time of unprecedented need. Blake Paterson, from The Advocate's Capital News Bureau, has the story.

Angola rodeo returns

The Angola Prison Rodeo will return next month after missing the last two years because of the coronavirus pandemic. Click here for details about the return of the "Wildest Show in the South."

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