This week on Behind The Lens, voters head to the polls again this weekend. We will look at all that’s at stake.

The race for Orleans parish sheriff has heated up with the size of the jail facility a key issue between the candidates. 

And Louisiana public schools are given “simulated” performance grades by the Louisiana Department of Education. Unsurprisingly, academic performance appears to have declined since the beginning of the pandemic.

Our guests this week are reporters Michael Isaac Stein, Marta Jewson and Nicholas Chrastil.

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Carolyne Heldman has been in media for 35 years, most recently as Executive Director at an NPR member station in Colorado where she was responsible for new multi-platform content initiatives, strategic...