Louisiana officials to hire company to manage education savings accounts program

BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) -- Louisiana education officials met on Tuesday to consider a revised one-year contract with a company that would manage the state's education savings accounts program.

Gov. Jeff Landry signed a bill in May allowing the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to create an educational savings accounts program. Parents are allowed to use tax dollars to pay to send their children to private schools under the new law.

Landry has called the legislation...