Friends of King charter group to move to four-day school week
Advocates of four-day school weeks say the schedule can save money and attract teachers. Critics worry about an extra day of childcare for working parents.
Ongoing asbestos cleanup forces two schools to spend another year in temporary campuses
Report sheds light on how often threat of habitual offender sentence may factor into guilty pleas
Multiple bills are way down in New Orleans. But they still offer prosecutors leverage as a threat. Court Watch volunteers saw prosecutors reference the habitual offender law in 16 percent of plea-deal cases in 2017, 13 percent in 2018.
Report: New Orleans criminal court drug testing methods unconfirmed, may lead to false positives
At least 59 people were jailed for contempt in 2018 based on questionable drug tests, watchdog group says.
Judge’s order allows Sophie B. Wright students to walk at graduation, but it may have come too late
The order came down 15 minutes before graduation was set to begin, according to a civil rights attorney who represented six students.
Week in Review: Entergy New Orleans could face $2 million fine over frequent outages
Behind The Lens episode 31: ‘We apologize for this inconvenience’
Marta Jewson on the resignation of a charter school network's CEO. Michael Isaac Stein on the latest recommended fines against Entergy New Orleans. And some highlights from The Lens' most recent public records workshop.
Lower Nine faces 13 years of hell if canal project rolls forward
Stunning indifference to community resistance
Over opposition from mayor and advocates, City Council passes homeless encampment sweep ordinance
Unity of Greater New Orleans came out against the ordinance in a letter to the city. An administration official suggested that Cantrell could veto the ordinance.
City Council advisers recommend up to $2 million fine against Entergy New Orleans over frequent outages
The report shows about 2,600 outages in the city from mid-2016 to mid-2017.
