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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 is an independent reporter based in New Orleans. Marta has covered New Orleans schools for 15 years through the nation's largest education reform experiment and was instrumental in holding schools accountable to sunshine laws during the rapid expansion of charter schools in the city. She focuses on education, health and climate.

She earned her journalism degree from the University of Wisconsin.

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