Our riverfront is for all, not just for tourists queued up to ride a riverboat and for one company’s profits.
Posted inSchools
Six charter groups apply to run Craig and Coghill schools; four of them no longer in the running
The nonprofits that run Joseph A. Craig Charter School and Mary D. Coghill Charter School are likely to lose their charters at the end of the year.
Posted inBehind The Lens
Behind The Lens episode 59: ‘He always maintained his innocence, and he always held out hope’
City Council questions a proposed nonprofit contract, NOLA Public Schools touts inflated graduation rate index, and the tragic story of Erin Hunter and New Orleans’ justice system.
Posted inCriminal Justice
Appeals court affirms that city surveillance records are public
A public defender sued for crime camera location records after the city claimed they were too sensitive for public release.
Posted inGovernment & Politics
City seeking contract with nonprofit with questionable history handling public funds, but council delays vote
The Family Center of Hope received millions in public funds to build a community center. It was never completed, and the building is still vacant.
Posted inCriminal Justice
City Council approves ‘compromise’ on use of jail facility
The amendment would allow the continued use of the facility’s Temporary Detention Center for housing certain inmates. It will require one more vote from the council.
Posted inSchools
How New Orleans schools’ ‘graduation rate index’ jumped 20 points in one year (Hint: It’s not the same thing as the graduation rate)
The state’s graduation rate index is a part of its rating system. While the state uses the graduation rate to calculate the index score, the two numbers are not the same.
Posted inOpinion
Imprisonment is a threat to public health. We must reject jail expansion in New Orleans.
No individual leaves prison or jail healthier than when they arrived. Every encounter with law enforcement—including arrest, criminalization, and incarceration—is associated with illness and premature death.The experience of incarceration is so damaging to one’s health that health-care workers, scholars, and formerly incarcerated people have identified Post Incarceration Syndrome as a discrete condition that is now […]
Posted inGovernment & Politics
Company that received large incentive package to create jobs in New Orleans plans to hire overseas, records show
Federal records show that DXC has filed more than 150 applications for H-1B visas.
Posted inCriminal Justice
‘Your honor, can I tell the whole story?’ Part 3
A murder in New Orleans, a trial that lasted less than a day, and the lives they entangled for the next three decades.