If we bring the right people to the table and think outside the box, we can reduce insurance rates, bring down heat levels within our city, put our youth to work, have strong roofs, dry streets, cooler neighborhoods and be a national leader in climate adaptation.
Nick Chrastil and Katy Reckdahl on a bill that would provide funding to build new local juvenile-detention faciilites. Marta Jewson and La'Shance Perry on the Living School's final days as it prepares to close its doors.
This week, as the Living School moves toward its final graduation, the Class of 2024 mourns the closure of their unique high school — and explains why it mattered.
‘State dollars attached to each juvenile’ would allow sheriffs to build more local juvenile-detention centers, then get paid to keep kids who are placed in state custody. Is the state paying to keep kids closer to home or incentivizing people to put kids in jail?
Marta Jewson on Lycée Français charter school's teachers union victory. And Delaney Dryfoos on both industry and activists taking aim at the EPA.
Unless the city provides readily accessible translation and interpretation, true civic participation is impossible for New Orleanians who speak little or no English, the writers say.
A menos que la ciudad proporcione traducción e interpretación realmente accesibles, la participación cívica plena es imposible para los habitantes que hablan poco o nada de inglés en Nueva Orleans, dicen los autores.
The win came shortly after a group of teachers were not offered contracts for the next school year, a move that some saw as an unfair effort to undermine the union drive – and possibly jeopardize the integrity of Lycée Français for years to come.
Sara Sneath on LSU's unusual relationship with the oil and gas industry. Marta Jewson on Lycée Français charter school's union drive.
