Madigan’s new tax proposal — which levies a 3 percent surcharge on income over $1 million to provide funding to schools — is packaged as an easy political sell. Who can argue with a pitch that cries: “More money for children!” But it’s not so simple. A look at the data about education spending and...

The Department of Justice is seeking a federal court order to halt Louisiana’s school voucher program. The order would apply to school districts still under federal desegregation supervision. Arguing that the implementation of the voucher system has caused “school wide racial demographics to stray further from district-wide percentages,” the DOJ seeks to put the program on hold...