Dispatchers now working for police, fire and EMS would leave those agencies.
Posted inEnvironment
Experts: Talk now about drastic changes, or deal with coastal crisis later
The mouth of the Mississippi River should be moved north and communities downriver eventually will have to be abandoned if other parts of southeast Louisiana are to have a future into the next century. Those were among the more startling recommendations proposed by the teams of coastal engineering and sustainability experts from around the world.
Posted inOpinion, Schools
Saving the art of teaching from the science of education
Modern educators are taking Taylorism off the assembly line and applying it to the classroom.
Posted inCharter Schools, Schools
Foundation Prep attracts enough students to make it through first year, board told
Only 16 students were registered when doors opened last month. The student body is now at 38.
Posted inSchools
Lycée Français hires consultant for Priestley work, considers third-party deal
Charter considers selling building for $9-million-plus renovation, then leasing back finished campus.
Posted inCriminal Justice
City runs ad seeking health care for inmates even though Sheriff has deal
Though ad ran in a newspaper today, the city pulled solicitation from its website after this morning.
Posted inEvents, Schools
Next Breakfast with the Newsmakers will focus on schools, charters (video)
We’ll talk with Ken Ducote, the new leader of group of collaborating charter schools across the area
Posted inEnvironment
River levees doing double duty, but differing standards gives feds a break
Taxpayers in three parishes likely to pick up a cost once paid by Army Corps of Engineers.
Posted inCriminal Justice, Opinion
Debtors’ prisons may be illegal, but they’re alive and well in Louisiana
Effectively, the system jails people because they are poor, which is neither legal nor just.
Posted inOpinion
Old problems persist, but it’s absurd to deny improvements since Katrina
The disaster narrative that national observers are habituated to look for has blinded them to a lot of what’s going on in our schools …