We have to change the laws, legal systems, and enforcement practices that have allowed these same issues, and this same treatment of our cultural community, to perpetuate.
Posted inSchools
After Kennedy fallout, school district seeks assistant director of HS accountability
It’s unclear how closely the district monitored charter high school graduation requirements in the past.
Posted inGovernment & Politics
City Council talks solar energy and short-term rentals at Wednesday committee meetings
The New Orleans City Council utility committee on Wednesday advanced a plan for Entergy New Orleans to add 90 megawatts of solar energy to its portfolio. “This has been a really drawn-out process that started all the way back in 2016,” Councilwoman and utility chair Helena Moreno said. “The council has had to come in […]
Posted inOpinion
The Army Corps of Engineers has failed New Orleans
We have a history of wanting to believe the Corps’ reassurances, both pre- and post-flood, but the agency that almost destroyed this city has now betrayed it.
Posted inEnvironment
Council, environmental coalition announce plans to increase city’s renewable energy portfolio
Council plan calls for a new solar plant in eastern New Orleans, solar purchases from outside the city. The coalition’s plan aims to get the city to 100 percent renewable energy by 2040.
Posted inSchools
Kennedy HS has not provided school district required information on grade-fixing, transcript errors, according to warning letter
The district is considering revoking Kennedy’s charter contract.
Posted inBehind The Lens
Behind The Lens episode 40: ‘You don’t know exactly what you’re gonna get until it gets here’
A conversation on emergency preparedness as New Orleans waits for Tropical Storm Barry, Entergy’s efforts to lower carbon emissions, and a new approach to give expelled students the tools to return to their regular classroom
Posted inGovernment & Politics
The city’s plan for the homeless during Barry: more shelter beds, outreach, and encampment sweeps
As Tropical Storm Barry bears down on Louisiana, city of New Orleans officials are working to manage one of the city’s most vulnerable populations: unsheltered homeless people. The plan is to expand the capacity of the network of homeless shelters to accommodate anyone who needs room, then try to urge as many people inside as […]
Posted inGovernment & Politics
ICE suspends immigration enforcement in Southern Louisiana and Mississippi Gulf Coast, spokesman says
Advocates fear that the limited area of the suspension will discourage some immigrants from evacuating.
Posted inEnvironment
Entergy’s emissions reduction goals would yield higher emissions than it produced in 2017
Entergy is among the many US utilities who have started switching from coal to gas power, but have been slower to adopt renewables.