This week on Behind The Lens, a former employee of the New Beginnings Schools Foundation who raised a red flag on what he said are suspicious grade changes at John F. Kennedy High School asked for his job back this week.

He and his attorney made that request Thursday night at a special meeting of the charter school network’s governing board. Lens education reporter Marta Jewson was there.

Also, former Lens staffer Bob Marshall wrote The Lens’ 2014 examination of coastal land loss, “Losing Ground” and the follow-up “Louisana’s Moon Shot,” on the Coastal Master Plan, an award-winning collaboration with Propublica. Bob, a longtime Times-Picayune reporter before he came to The Lens, now writes an environmental column for NOLA.com.

He joined us by phone this week to talk about coastal erosion, warning that part of the problem is evident in the language we use to discuss it.

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