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School district took no action regarding Lusher board’s circumvention of public meetings law

Last year The Lens reported that board members of Lusher Charter School privately discussed how to respond to a union drive and set up private meetings. Both appeared to violate state law. The school district appears to have taken school officials at their word that they did nothing wrong.
by Marta Jewson May 26, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019

Take ‘Em Down NOLA demands inclusive process for deciding what’s next

Calls for town hall meetings.
by Malcolm Suber May 25, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019

Monument fight now part of our heritage — but what to do with those pedestals?

What should replace Gen. Lee? Maybe no one.
by Jed Horne May 22, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019

Coghill teachers end the school year by voting for union representation

The school’s lawyer said negotiations won’t start until the fall.
by Marta Jewson May 22, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019

Defense attorney wants Orleans Parish DA to say if it used fake subpoenas in home invasion case

Attorney Craig Mordock says he hopes other lawyers follow suit.
by Charles Maldonado May 22, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019

Notices sent to witnesses on North Shore weren’t called subpoenas, but they looked real enough

We reviewed 33 notices sent by prosecutors since 2015. They had the court clerk’s name on them and told people they were “notified … to testify.” DA Warren Montgomery said they were misleading, but he doesn’t believe they were misused. A legal expert called them a sham.
by Charles Maldonado May 19, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019

Area schools still leaving non-English speakers in the lurch

Lack of language services violates federal law.
by Gwendolyn Murray May 18, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019

82 percent of school-zone lights in New Orleans work now, the most we’ve seen

There was a big improvement last fall when the city announced an expansion of traffic enforcement cameras.
by Marta Jewson May 17, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019

The Lens sues District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro to force him to turn over fake subpoenas

His office has told us it doesn’t know how often they were used, and it’s too hard to look.
by Steve Myers May 15, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019

Orleans Parish DA sued over refusal to turn over witness subpoenas, real and fake

by Charles Maldonado May 12, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019

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