This week on Behind The Lens, New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell withdrew a nominee for a spot on the board of directors for the New Orleans Sewerage & Water Board earlier this month. The candidate, Kimberley Thomas, was fast-tracked for approval by the New Orleans City Council, which apparently had been poised to overlook years of state ethics-law violations to approve her nomination.

And while the state department of education turned around standardized test scores for thousands of students in record time this year, it can take another four months for them to turn the results into the highly anticipated letter grades given to all schools. This time gap leaves teachers, students and families still guessing about the future.

Our guests this week are freelance reporter Matt McBride and Lens education reporter Marta Jewson. 

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