Monthly board meeting canceled because majority of members fail to show up

Only three of eight members showed up for the Treme Charter School Association’s monthly board meeting, April 28.

After waiting about an hour for other members to appear, the board, which runs McDonogh 42 Elementary Charter School cancelled the meeting for lack of a quorum.

A message was sent to members last week in an attempt to confirm whether a quorum would be in attendance, but those present said some members took the message to mean that there would be no quorum and therefore no meeting.

The meeting was rescheduled.

Marta Jewson

Marta Jewson covers education in New Orleans for The Lens. She began her reporting career covering charter schools for The Lens and helped found the hyperlocal news site Mid-City Messenger. Jewson returned to New Orleans in the fall of 2014 after covering education for the St. Cloud Times in Minnesota. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with majors in journalism and social welfare and a concentration in educational policy studies.

Jewson has covered New Orleans schools for 15 years through the nation's largest education reform experiment. She was a founding member of the outlet's Charter School Reporting Corps and was instrumental in holding schools accountable to sunshine laws during the rapid expansion of charter schools in the city.