Hynes board to discuss principal’s performance

Hynes to meet to review principal's performance.

The governing board for Edward Hynes Elementary charter school plans to meet at 5 p.m. tonight.

The board sent out its agenda on Jan. 23, but updated it Saturday. The revised agenda notes an executive session at the end of the meeting, the topic of which is described as, “professional competence of principal.”

The board meets at the school, 990 Harrison Ave. in New Orleans.

Rebecca Catalanello

Rebecca Catalanello edits the Charter School Reporting Corps. A New Orleans native and graduate of Benjamin Franklin High School, Catalanello spent much of her 15-year newspaper career covering K-12 education. For nine years prior to joining The Lens, she worked at the St. Petersburg Times (now called the Tampa Bay Times), where she wrote about school boards, homeschoolers, crime, state politics and virtual education, among other things. She helped cover Hurricane Katrina for the Times in 2005 and, in subsequent years, wrote from her hometown about New Orleanians