While the study won’t end until December, the Corps already believes its tentative selection for replacing the lock is the best in a narrow range of options for easing inland waterborne traffic. But some New Orleans residents say they’re outraged that the Corps is still considering the project, which has been planned for decades.
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Opinion
Soros accepts Ridenhour Prize for Courage in an age of lies
Ron Ridenhour’s letter changed the history of a war.
Posted inSchools
Class Dismissed: OneApp
Part three in a series on school closures in New Orleans. The centralized school enrollment lottery takes months to conduct and offers special priority to students in closing schools. Two parents whose kids attend closing schools tell us how they’re playing the odds for next year.
Posted inGovernment & Politics
Hunger strikes at ICE detention centers spread as parole, bond denied
Recent hunger strike at detention facility in Louisiana was at least the sixth this year.
Posted inInside the News Room
Week in Review: Fired New Beginnings ‘whistleblower’ asks board to rehire him
Fired New Beginnings ‘whistleblower’ asks board to rehire him A former New Beginnings Schools Foundation employee who raised a red flag on what he said are suspicious grade changes at John F. Kennedy High School asked for his job back at a special meeting of the charter school network’s governing board Thursday night. Runell King […]
Posted inBehind The Lens
Behind The Lens episode 27: ‘Violently, ugly, viciously, for money’
More on the New Beginnings Schools Foundation with Marta Jewson. And special guest Bob Marshall talks about coastal erosion.
Posted inSchools
Fired New Beginnings ‘whistleblower’ asks board to rehire him
Runell King said Kennedy High school employees improperly inflated students’ grades from failing to passing. He was fired and has since hired an attorney.
Posted inCriminal Justice, Opinion
Misconduct by prosecutors is rampant — how do we deter it?
Orleans DA’s office among worst offenders
Posted inSchools
Kennedy High School voided 144 state exams last year, after giving wrong test
The school had, by far, the most tests voided due to irregularities of any school in the state. A lawyer for Kennedy’s charter group said the issue will be added to an ongoing investigation into other problems, including alleged grade-fixing.
Posted inEnvironment
Nathaniel Rich on ‘Losing Earth,’ climate change and the shifting political argument
A Q&A with the New Orleans-based author about his new book.