Our map will update as the Secretary of State’s office counts votes Saturday night, starting shortly after 8 p.m. CT. We’re tracking the governor’s race, all other statewide races, and a few of interest to New Orleans — including the French Quarter sales tax increase.
Posted inGovernment & Politics
Inspector General’s Office avoids attempt to hack data by taking down website
Attorney for the office said no data was taken, and site will move to more secure domain.
Posted inCriminal Justice
With youths still in danger in OPP, group pushes again for separate facility
Despite a sweeping federal consent decree for Orleans Parish Prison, youth advocates say the facility remains unsafe for inmates 17 and younger. The City Council has declared that the juvenile detention center is the best place for all those 17 and under, but that facility doesn’t have enough room.
Posted inSchools
State releases school-level information on student performance on PARCC tests
Scroll down to see test scores from just the public schools in Orleans Parish, by grade level. The state released today the first school-level scores from the new test intended to measure Common Core concepts. Fourteen schools out of 63 in New Orleans had a majority of third- through eighth- grade students earn acceptable scores on […]
Posted inGovernment & Politics
City Council to consider ordinance that requires Ethics Board to file ethics forms
Board members have never turned in forms disclosing sources of income.
Posted inSchools
Live blog: School board member, superintendent holding forum in Gentilly
Town-hall-style event is part of series of meetings in each of seven school districts.
Posted inSchools
Live blog: Schools superintendent holds forum for parents in Eastern New Orleans
Henderson Lewis continues his listening tour of all seven city school districts.
Posted inEnvironment
State coastal authority OKs two diversions, but construction unlikely for three years
Two other breaks in the levee farther downriver rejected because of lack of sediment.
Posted inSchools
Three-campus deal will keep Cohen in place, give Booker T. Washington to KIPP
KIPP expected to finance a K-8 campus elsewhere on its own, freeing money to rebuild Cohen.
Posted inEnvironment, Opinion
Next governor must make evacuation planning the No. 1 coastal priority
The levees were reconstructed to shore up insurable property values, not to eliminate the threat to human life.