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.
It’s unclear how closely the district monitored charter high school graduation requirements in the past.
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.
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.
