An executive order from Obama would not end or limit donations, but it would shine light on a corrupting cash nexus.
Posted inSchools
Principals discuss study that found charters tried to exclude some students
New report shows school leaders admitted to screening students to get the best.
Posted inEnvironment, Opinion
Opposing opinions on river diversions show contentious nature of coastal master plan
Are sediment diversions a dangerous experiment or coastal savior?
Posted inCriminal Justice
Advocates again urge NOPD to stop checking immigration status
Council member says current policy “confusing;” chief unable to detail draft of rewrite.
Posted inCriminal Justice
Live blog for Thursday: Sheriff, city square off over consent decree finances
Gusman says city money falls short; city wants to void prison healthcare contract.
Posted inSchools
Two schools lose charters, but fates of their students are starkly different
The state school board recently decided that two New Orleans charter schools were failing their children so badly that their contracts wouldn’t be renewed after this academic year. But there’s a remarkable difference in what will happen to the students at these two sites.
Posted inGovernment & Politics
Major error by city causes tax problems for its employees for 2013 and 2014
Comptroller says city inflated income by 25 percent for 2013; IRS sending penalty letters.
Posted inCriminal Justice
Lawsuit says state prison officials broke sunshine law in discussing executions
Death-penalty opponents say a committee created by the Legislature never met publicly.
Posted inInside the News Room, Investigations
Losing Ground collaboration with ProPublica honored by Scripps Howard, Society for News Design
A judge said of the project: “That map does things we haven’t seen before. It’s an amazing project.”
Posted inEnvironment
Day after boasting of Gulf’s health, BP confirms 25,000-pound tar mat
On Monday BP released a statement claiming the environment of the northern Gulf of Mexico had returned its “baseline condition” five years after its Deepwater Horizon disaster pumped more than 200 million gallons of oil into the Gulf off Louisiana’s coast. But on Tuesday the U.S. Coast Guard was supervising the ongoing removal of a large oil tar mat on East Grand Terre Island that has yielded more than 25,000 pounds of oil mixed with sand since late February, a BPO spokesman confirmed.