School district’s new high school accountability director starts work at Kennedy
Position was created in the wake of Kennedy HS graduation scandal.
Behind The Lens episode 51: ‘The city is responsible for this, not the residents of Gordon Plaza.’
NOLA Public Schools issues a report on its investigation of John F. Kennedy High School, the Orleans Parish Assessor gets caught defending a policy that his staff later said was never really a policy, and residents of the toxic Gordon Plaza housing development press Mayor LaToya Cantrell for help with relocation.
City Planning staff recommends raising bed cap at Orleans jail
Assessor defends costly policy on business taxes for weeks; later, his staff says the policy doesn’t exist
The policy Williams described likely would have cost the city and other Orleans Parish agencies millions of dollars.
Court-appointed special education monitors detail how the state picked the wrong New Orleans schools for federal consent decree scrutiny
Calculation errors, sloppy record-keeping led to 10 schools being erroneously picked for special monitoring. Plaintiffs’ attorney says the details in the report are troubling and point to the state’s inability to oversee New Orleans’ decentralized system.
Newly hired Kennedy HS Principal out six weeks into school year
Behind The Lens episode 50: ‘It’s more than just voting for a candidate; civic engagement is bigger than that’
City Council weighs the property tax rate as a budget deadline looms, KIPP New Orleans edges closer to the New Orleans Public Schools' enrollment cap, and a statewide effort to register Louisiana's 36,000 re-enfranchised voters.
NOLA schools chief: Initial Kennedy HS investigation ‘inconclusive,’ though later findings ‘a different story’
The district’s long-awaited report on the scandal that led to half the school's senior class being unable to graduate on time is five pages long and light on details.
Top Cantrell deputy warns of dire consequences without increased property tax revenue, but council member calls it a ‘scare tactic’
Montaño says city could face $25 million budget hole without roll forward.
Law firm hired to investigate Kennedy HS quickly ruled initial grade changing allegations untrue
It's unclear how Adams and Reese attorneys reached the conclusion. And one official from Kennedy's charter board suggested that opinions have since changed.
