Parents and other community members invited tonight to 6 p.m. event at Audubon Charter School.
Criminal Justice
Louisiana man at center of Supreme Court hearing on youth life sentencing
In 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that youth can’t be sentenced automatically to life in prison. But what should happen to the couple thousand inmates already serving such sentences? Tuesday, lawyers for Henry Montgomery argue that they should get parole hearings. An in-depth look at the crime and the man at the center of the case.
Schools
Parents won’t get first Common Core test results until November
For the first time since 1999, the state does not have a standardized-testing contractor, forcing it to manually check and refine 640,000 scores on the new, controversial tests given this spring. State, school and district results will be available before the BESE primary election.
Environment
Experts: Talk now about drastic changes, or deal with coastal crisis later
The mouth of the Mississippi River should be moved north and communities downriver eventually will have to be abandoned if other parts of southeast Louisiana are to have a future into the next century. Those were among the more startling recommendations proposed by the teams of coastal engineering and sustainability experts from around the world.
Government & Politics
Myths surrounding Katrina still flow from reporters, politicians after 10 years
Ten years after Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent floods from the failed federal levees, out-of-town media and politicians are still getting some things wrong. Here are five of the most stubborn myths about the disaster, the recovery and the city of New Orleans — plus one self-delusional bonus myth we just can’t let stand.
