Four months after The Lens reported that 60 percent of school-zone lights in the city were broken, little progress has been made. Our latest survey, done in mid-May, showed an improvement of just 9 lights. The city promises to fix them all by the start of school. It made the same promise two years ago.
Posted inSchools
Lycée Français has major work ahead to open Priestley campus
The school has been fallow for 22 years and suffers a variety of system failures.
Posted inOpinion
WBOK panel on race shows how hard it can be to ‘promote understanding’
White guilt meets black blame: Is there no way to overcome these obstacles to more constructive conversation?
Posted inSchools
SciTech charter leader let students take tests for each other and at home
Network administrators don’t believe lapses happened with critical state tests.
Posted inCriminal Justice
NOPD review of sex-crime and child-abuse cases shows policy violations, broadens to include supervisors
But the NOPD says many of the cases flagged by the Inspector General were sex-offender checks, not criminal complaints.
Posted inGovernment & Politics
The Lens loses public records lawsuit against city of New Orleans
Judge Kern Reese said the city must review public records for private information, which can delay its response.
Posted inSchools
SciTech Academy’s two leaders quit amid questions over testing process
ReNEW network official said the tests weren’t part of state accountability system.
Posted inGovernment & Politics
Based on previous IG report, city still overpaying delinquent-tax collector
Two unexplained charges raises new company’s billings to one-fourth of tax collections.
Posted inCharter Schools, Schools
Other charters will get material from closed Lagniappe Academies
The nonprofit that ran the school will auction off modular buildings next month.
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Opinion
If Jindal’s anti-gay order reflects Southern ‘values,’ New Orleans has seceded from the region
There’s the Old South and then there’s the Other South. Revulsion over Jindal’s coded bigotry places New Orleans in the latter camp.