Enrollment jump boosts Einstein budget by $1.2 million; public is a no-show at hearing
Spending category with biggest increase — 67% — is in support of programming for gifted students.
Year: 2014
Jindal’s national ambitions begin to tell on his effectiveness, lawmakers contend
A distant figure to most legislators in recent years, of late Jindal has become even more remote as he steps up out-of-state travels for a presumed presidential campaign. The question is whether Jindal's presidential yearnings will undercut the home-state record he needs to run on.
Einstein Charter plans to deepen its roots in eastern New Orleans; seeks students, funding
Board recruitment also under way. Members urge special outreach to Vietnamese and African-American communities.
Louisiana follows experts’ tips to prevent, detect standardized test cheating
Shortcomings are in the number of computers in schools and charters that investigate themselves.
Plagiarism on standardized tests three times higher in New Orleans schools than rest of Louisiana
New Orleans schools continue to have a higher rate of plagiarism on standardized tests than the rest of the state. Two factors could be at play: There could be a greater pressure to succeed, and there are more low-scorers in big cities.
Google ruling seeks fine line between privacy and the public’s right to know
How do you “start over” when anyone who googles your name knows you were once a coke-fueled maniac dressed in, say, a chicken outfit?
How The Lens reported our latest story on standardized testing in New Orleans
Even using method preferred by the state, New Orleans is an outlier.
LSU projections show storm surge swamping Southeast Louisiana by century’s end
The highest rates of sinking afflict communities protected by levees, New Orleans among them.
Addition of sixth grade and efforts to recruit at-risk students dominate Lycée board meeting
Plans to use the Cabildo as the base of a six-week program on the French Quarter have been put on hold, as the building undergoes renovation.
Lycée Français community squabbles anew, this time over adding out-of-sequence grades
A member acknowledges that the prior board yielded to cronyism in agreeing to the add the grades ahead of schedule.
