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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.
by Marta Jewson December 5, 2019 Updated December 5, 2019

Imprisonment is a threat to public health. We must reject jail expansion in New Orleans.

by Louis Gregory December 5, 2019 Updated December 13, 2019

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.
by Samantha Sunne December 4, 2019 Updated December 4, 2019

‘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.
by Nick Chrastil December 4, 2019 Updated December 3, 2019

District Attorney has dropped 83 percent of domestic violence charges in Municipal Court in last two years

Last month, District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro said that his office was sending almost all domestic violence charges to Municipal Court, rather than state court.
by Michael Isaac Stein December 3, 2019 Updated December 3, 2019

‘Your honor, can I tell the whole story?’ Part 2

A murder in New Orleans, a trial that lasted less than a day, and the lives they entangled for the next three decades.
by Nick Chrastil December 3, 2019 Updated June 19, 2020

‘Your honor, can I tell the whole story?’ Part 1

A murder in New Orleans, a trial that lasted less than a day, and the lives they entangled for the next three decades.
by Nick Chrastil December 2, 2019 Updated December 4, 2019

Changes in ACT will allow students to combine best scores beginning in fall 2020

The ability to take individual subject tests and to combine best scores could help level the playing field between low-income and more affluent students, says an administrator at the city's largest charter operator.
by Marta Jewson November 29, 2019 Updated November 26, 2019

Persistent outages plaguing Grand Gulf nuclear plant are adding millions to the bills of New Orleans customers

The outages cost New Orleans customers upwards of $100,000 a day, according to Entergy.
by Michael Isaac Stein November 27, 2019 Updated November 27, 2019

Mental Illness Behind Bars: The hard lessons of Orleans Parish

The city and the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office are implementing short- and long-term plans for housing mentally ill inmates, but critics say jail is no place to treat mental illness.
by Nick Chrastil November 26, 2019 Updated November 26, 2019

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