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Major labor union threatens to cancel convention in New Orleans if Convention Center doesn’t address local workers’ demands for relief

A local pressure campaign to force the Ernest N. Morial New Orleans Convention Center to use its reserve funds for coronavirus worker relief funding is starting to affect the center’s business.
by Michael Isaac Stein April 20, 2020 Updated April 20, 2020

Orleans Public Defenders announce furloughs in face of decreased revenue due to coronavirus

The cuts will affect about 67 employees.
by Nick Chrastil April 20, 2020 Updated April 20, 2020

Lusher kindergarten lottery — delayed due to coronavirus outbreak — now scheduled for next week

The lottery will not be open to the public. But the Uptown charter school will post a video and provide results to parents by May 1.
by Marta Jewson April 20, 2020 Updated April 20, 2020

Behind The Lens episode 77: Got protection?

Local researchers push hard for new innovations and hopefully even a vaccine to fight the COVID-19 outbreak. Also, worrisome economic prospects for New Orleans workers and residents.
by Tom Wright April 17, 2020 Updated April 17, 2020

A year after graduation scandal, Kennedy High’s governing board prepares to shut down

Class of 2020, which includes some students who expected to graduate last year, will miss out on graduation ceremony due to COVID-19 school shutdown.
by Marta Jewson April 17, 2020 Updated April 17, 2020

Louisiana prison medical director steps down

Morrison’s departure comes in midst of COVID-19 pandemic, litigation from prisoners.
by Nick Chrastil April 17, 2020 Updated April 17, 2020

Detainees in New Orleans, stuck in jail on parole holds, struggle to find legal recourse

Parole revocation hearings have been suspended since March.
by Nick Chrastil April 16, 2020 Updated April 16, 2020

Scientists at Tulane National Primate Research Center studying vaccines, treatments for COVID-19

Testing on primates with DNA similar to humans is key to developing new drugs and getting them approved.
by Leslie Cardé April 16, 2020 Updated April 16, 2020

NOLA Public Schools expects charters to teach through end of school year

Instructional minute and other requirements have been waived, leaving school districts able to chose their last day of school.
by Marta Jewson April 16, 2020 Updated April 16, 2020

Mapping the environment of coronavirus: a lesson plan

"After the March 13 closure of Tulane University’s campus, we instructors spent a week moving classes online, while students returned home and settled. The question for me and my 28 far-flung students was what to do with a locally-focused environmental journalism class? We quickly turned our final writing project towards the historic crisis at hand."
by Ned Randolph April 16, 2020 Updated April 16, 2020

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