Lacking quorum, NOMMA board will reschedule meeting

The New Orleans Military and Maritime Academy could not reach a quorum at its monthly meeting Thursday night.  Heavy traffic over the Crescent City Connection prevented two board members from reaching the school’s west bank campus.

Members Terry Ebbert, Jack Bergman, Marcellus Grace and W. David Whiddon were present, two shy of a quorum.  As other members called stuck in traffic they were told to call off the commute and that the meeting would be rescheduled.
Commandant of the school Col. Bill Davis and principal Cecilia Garcia briefed the board on educational matters.

The meeting has not yet been 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.