Louisiana Republicans' celebration of Louisiana as “Trump Country” bespeaks a Louisiana that does not include the great city of New Orleans.
The school district cited the board for overstepping and later issued a more escalated warning regarding financial concerns.
Council members appear supportive of the plan, proposed by the Vera Institute for Justice last month. But a prominent crime watchdog group and the Orleans DA have criticized jail population reduction efforts.
At first meeting of council taxing committee, Cantrell officials explain options for raising additional infrastructure funds.
Improper grade changes affected five students, superintendent says. All five has since passed a proficiency test in the course where their grade was altered.
A lawsuit is filed over secret meetings about proposed chemical plant in St. James Parish, a short term rental tax begins making it's way through the New Orleans City Council, and more fallout from the graduation scandal at John F. Kennedy High School.
Orleans Parish Schools Superintendent Henderson Lewis, Jr. said the schools will remain open.
Under Cantrell’s infrastructure deal, 25 percent of revenues will go to the city’s private tourism promotion group, leading some council members to call for controls on how the money will be spent. Affordable housing advocates worry about a dedicated city revenue stream tied to the STR market.
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.