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
Advocates fear that the limited area of the suspension will discourage some immigrants from evacuating.
Entergy is among the many US utilities who have started switching from coal to gas power, but have been slower to adopt renewables.
The charter group that runs The NET alternative high schools will open a therapeutic program for seventh and eighth grade students who’ve been expelled.
The district also has concerns over Coghill’s use of federal education funding.
The Lens wants to learn more about credit recovery at other New Orleans high schools. Did you experience any problems with credits when graduating? Did you use course recovery and credit remediation programs in high school?
A special all-schools episode. Host and producer Jessica Rosgaard talks to education researcher Doug Harris about New Orleans becoming an all-charter city. And we hear from the lawyer for a family suing John F. Kennedy High School.
Attorneys for the city argued that the final vote, on March 8, 2018, should stand. But the judge ruled that the presence of paid actors at an earlier meeting tainted the process.
