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Seven New Orleans charter schools are up for renewal this winter as their charter contracts come to an end.
Did you hear the one about the scientists who determined that planting trees is good for the Earth? No, really.
The impact that industrial farms are having on local fishermen and the Gulf Dead Zone, verifying record keeping on the Industrial Tax Exemption Program, and why Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams is bringing her fair election fight to Louisiana.
New Beginnings CEO Kevin George said he believes the problems discovered at Kennedy are not unique to the school. The New Orleans school district has promised a citywide audit of high school records.
The charter school network has lost eight administrators since last spring, when widespread problems at Kennedy began to come to light.
Williams’ office automatically treats all industrial tax exemptions as valid for 10 years, but the Folgers exemptions were not renewed after their first five-year terms. The apparent oversight raises questions about record-keeping at the office.
District officials will present plans for long-term and surplus property and take input from the public at four meetings over the next two weeks.
In the second part of a special two-part series, reporter and photographer Spike Johnson looks how Midwest agriculture contributes to the dead zone and what’s being done to reduce the damage.
A roundup of the week in education news, and a recommendation that Entergy New Orleans should be “net zero” carbon emissions by 2050 to combat global warming.
