Two options for Gentilly Terrace building: French-immersion school or program for students with behavioral problems
The neighborhood association is pushing for Audubon Charter School, which wants to open a second location.
School district employees’ involvement in charter application raises questions of conflict of interest
The employee who supervised the last five traditional public schools in the city just quit her job to become CEO of ExCEED, a group that wants to turn them into charters. Four of the people who used to work for her, and still work for the district, are named in its application.
Eureka! Artist behind rediscovered Black Panther mural is identified
Twists and turns lead to insights about a cultural find.
Post-election hate hits New Orleans, with a bomb threat at the JCC
Watching and waiting is not an option, columnist argues.
Lake Forest charter school board member resigned after $120,000 deal with school
Donald Pate, who was on the the board for Lake Forest charter school, said he wanted to help out the school by selling dirt for a construction project. That would violate state ethics law. Although he said his company got $120,000, the state Ethics Board cleared him.
To rebuild the coast, Louisiana must show its river diversions won’t kill native dolphins
They can’t survive if the water isn’t salty enough, and they won’t leave their home in Barataria Bay.
Props to NOPD for upgrading its response to domestic violence
No more brushing incidents aside as merely personal.
Permit for first sediment diversion will take at least 2.5 years (and that’s fast)
Federal regulators must make sure the diversion won't violate 82 laws and executive orders.
Reclaiming native ground: Can Louisiana’s tribes restore their traditional diets as waters rise?
Native Americans are losing their ability to live off the land as it has crumbled into the Gulf of Mexico. Some of them are trying to figure out how to survive on what's left. A multimedia collaboration between the Food & Environment Reporting Network, Gravy, and The Lens.
Time to toss non-unanimous jury verdicts, a vestige of Jim Crow
Louisiana is one of two states that tolerate this unjust legal shortcut.
