After struggling to meet its enrollment goal, Foundation Preparatory Academy must rewrite its budget for a student body less than half the size leaders envisioned for its inaugural year.
Posted inSchools
First day of school in New Orleans? Start dates for charters span five weeks
Campuses have 19 dates — 115 different starts when including those that stagger grades by time and date.
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New charter schools face daunting task of attracting enough students to stay afloat
New Orleans’ nearly all-charter school system is built on competition, and for new schools, that means competing with established schools for students. State funding is based on enrollment, so falling short can put a new school in financial trouble.
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Milestone charter and state school board squabble over CEO credit-card incident
School chief resigned after improperly running up $13,000 bill.
Posted inGovernment & Politics
Tonight’s live blog: Landrieu holding final town-hall meeting on 2016 budget
Event set for Lower 9th Ward; firefighters and Confederate monuments highlighted previous meeting.
Posted inEnvironment, Events
Paul Kemp to discuss whether area is safer 10 years after Hurricane Katrina (video)
He’ll speak at our Breakfast with the Newsmakers event at 8 a.m. Aug. 20.
Posted inEnvironment
Post-Katrina reforms make levee, floodwall inspections a daily job
If local levee boards had followed inspection rules before Hurricane Katrina, they may have known about weaknesses before parts of the flood protection system collapsed in the storm. Now 11 employees work full-time inspecting and testing levees, floodwalls and equipment around New Orleans.
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Opinion
Memories of a black boyhood and my delight in the Confederate ‘stars and bars’
“I bought a Black Liberation Flag and hung it in my cube above my rack, as we called our beds. Someone wasn’t pleased.”
Posted inGovernment & Politics
Live blog Thursday: Landrieu holds public meeting on city finances in Lakeview
Meetings in Lakeview often focus on its roads, which are among the worst in the city.
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Opinion
Levees vs. logic: Rigging federal flood insurance rates is dumb and dangerous
Don’t be fooled. Average safety is not the same thing as actual safety.