Inside a small school down the bayou, southwest of New Orleans, two second-graders sit at a table covered with flash cards. In 2019, Louisiana's fourth graders ranked 50th in the country for reading.

LAFAYETTE, La. — The concept of the French Table seems simple. "At this restaurant, on this day for lunch, this table is the French Table. You come eat your lunch while you're on lunch break, but if ...

LAFAYETTE, La. — For decades now, French Immersion schools have worked to bring French back into Louisiana, but now Paroles de la Louisiane helps to bring Louisiana French into those schools. "To have ...

Louisiana has a long history with the French language, and while most Louisianans no longer speak French, a growing number of schools are immersing students in it - all kinds of it. Member station ...

When Télé-Louisiane was founded in 2018 as a multi-lingual media platform, the goal was to tell more of Louisiana's stories in French, Creole and the other languages that create the state's diverse ...

The state of Louisiana and the nation of France have extended their decades-old agreement to send French teachers to immersion schools across the state in an effort to preserve the long tradition of ...

Back in 2022, a relatively small line item appeared in the Louisiana state budget. For the first time, legislators voted to appropriate funds in support of Télé-Louisiane's French language programming ...

Inside a small school down the bayou, southwest of New Orleans, two second-graders sit at a table covered with flash cards. Juliet and Lana attend École Pointe-au-Chien, a new public French immersion ...

Most Louisianans no longer speak French, but a growing number of schools are now immersing kids in it. At École Pointe-au-Chien, the focus is on... Louisiana has a long history with French. This ...

Louisiana has a long history with the French language, and while most Louisianans no longer speak it, a growing number of schools are immersing kids in it. At École Pointe-au-Chien, the focus is on ...