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New Beginnings to hold public budget hearing at 4 p.m. today

Budgets for the network's four schools range from $3.8 million to $4.5 million.
by Marta Jewson

The New Beginnings Schools Foundation will hold a public budget hearing today at 4 p.m.

The operating budgets for the network’s four schools range from $3.8 million at Gentilly Terrace Charter School to $5.5 million at Lake Area New Tech Early College High School. Pierre Capdau and Medard Nelson’s budgets fall in between, at $3.9 million and $4.5 million respectively.

The budgets can be viewed here.

The hearing is scheduled to take place at the network’s office, 2045 Lakeshore Drive, CERM Building, Suite 415.

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.

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