KIPP New Orleans Schools is prepared to take school construction into its own hands if the Recovery School District grants them desirable land.
Posted inGovernment & Politics
Mayor’s budget restores staffing citywide, anticipates council will roll taxes forward
General fund budget of $593 million for 2016 is up $60 million over this year’s spending plan.
Posted inGovernment & Politics
City agrees to release public database after Lens promises to protect private info
Deal keeps secure any legally protected information accidentally provided by the city.
Posted inSchools
Live blog tonight: Schools chief visits West Bank for town hall meeeting
Henderson Lewis will hold open forum tonight at 6 p.m. at Landry-Walker High School.
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Investigations
City’s log of public-records requests and answers riddled with errors, anomalies
Lack of reliable information makes it difficult to check compliance with law requiring transparency.
Posted inSchools
City makes fitful progress in repairing school-zone caution lights
Drive by a school zone light at random in the city of New Orleans on a weekday and there’s about a 50 percent chance it works. And that’s an improvement. The number of broken lights has slowly dropped in three field surveys by The Lens, but the city hasn’t come close to repairing them all, as a city official promised in July.
Posted inSchools
Superintendent of Orleans Parish schools begins series of community meetings
Parents and other community members invited tonight to 6 p.m. event at Audubon Charter School.
Posted inCriminal Justice
Louisiana man, imprisoned for 50 years for killing a deputy, is at center of Supreme Court hearing on youth sentencing
In 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that youth can’t be sentenced automatically to life in prison. But what should happen to the couple thousand inmates already serving such sentences? Tuesday, lawyers for Henry Montgomery argue that they should get parole hearings. An in-depth look at the crime and the man at the center of the case.
Posted inOpinion
Love letter to a wild and crazy mistress as a jobseeker bails out of New Orleans
Seduced by New Orleans, a young Tulane grad breaks it off and heads back east.
Posted inCriminal Justice, Events
Public Defender Derwyn Bunton will appear at October’s Newsmakers event (video)
We’ll talk about the harsh realities of publicly appointed defense attorneys at our October Newsmaker.