Several similar resolutions have been approved since 2006, but this new one adds new restrictions on donations from Entergy employees and extends the restrictions to council candidates who aren’t currently sitting council members.
This is the final weekly update the district will issue for the 2020-21 school year.
The strike comes a week after the City Council advanced a proposal to mandate a minimum $15 an hour wage for city contractors, but not for direct city employees
No reports on the arrests of witnesses and crime victims, two years after passage of a law requiring them. Council hears about funding for new Entergy substation. And a privately run ICE facility is hit with a complaint for alleged human rights violations.
A district warning letter says that the school is owed more than $1M from its parent organization and ‘other programs.’
Advocates and council members say that next, they want to raise wages for city employees and eventually all workers in Orleans Parish.
About one-third of the city's public school students are in summer classes.
Two years after the legislature passed a law requiring DA’s offices to submit annual data on the use of material witness warrants, the reports only started coming in last week.
GEO Group, the private prison corporation that runs the facility, denied the allegations.
The $34 million upfront investment from Entergy will cost more than $85 million to pay back.
