BATON ROUGE, La. - Louisiana Public Broadcasting (LPB) continues its partnership with Télé-Louisiane, bringing viewers eight all-new episodes of La Veillée, a 15-minute weekly look at the happenings, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 2021 Louisiana was home to an estimated 250,000 French speakers, considering the fact just a generation or two ago Louisiana had a million French speakers. Created in 1968, the Council for the ...

Peggy Feehan is a native French speaker, born in New Brunswick, Canada, and educated there. She taught high school science before moving to Louisiana in 1999, when she was recruited by the Council for ...

The first thing you realize when you enter the classroom filled with eager 5th graders is that, though the school is in the heart of New Orleans, no one is speaking English. “Quel est cet objet?” ...

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 ...