The DA’s office is sending notices labeled “subpoena” to witnesses, threatening jail time if the person ignores them. But they’re not real subpoenas. An assistant district attorney says they’re meant to persuade people who may ignore a simple letter.
Posted inInside the News Room
Help us raise $25,000 by May 31 to #fightfakenews
Today marks the first day of our spring fundraising campaign to #fightfakenews. Our longtime funder Ethics and Excellence in Journalism presented The Lens and its audience with a challenge: Raise $25,000 and we’ll give you $25,000. With your support, we will achieve that goal during our #fightfakenews campaign. And this year, your donation through GiveNOLA Day on May 2 […]
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Opinion
Industrial Canal lock project: Try getting info about it from the Army Corps!
Comment period expires with questions still unanswered
Posted inSchools
At Mahalia Jackson, parents lurch from chartering to closure to uncertainty
First it was a charter effort. Then they were told it would close. Now they don’t know.
Posted inSchools
ExCEED withdraws applications to charter remaining traditional schools in New Orleans
The superintendent was scheduled to make a recommendation on the applications Thursday.
Posted inSchools
Louisiana families must give up special education rights for school vouchers
The New York Times reports that some families around the country don’t know this until they’re already in a private school.
Posted inSchools
Orleans school board committee votes to close Mahalia Jackson
The school is growing, but district staff say it’s not meeting enrollment goals.
Posted inSchools
How enrollment factored in the closure of Mahalia Jackson Elementary
A group has been trying to charter it. Now the school district wants to shut it down.
Posted inGovernment & Politics
Contract requires traffic-camera company to study wrecks, but New Orleans won’t push it
Two city council members say they want the city to demonstrate that cameras make streets safer.
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Opinion
Students gather to reclaim the role they played as leaders in the Civil Rights era
Ambassador Young returns to the city where the SCLC was born.