Firefighters to get back pay for filling jobs of superiors, dating to late 2013
Civil Service Commission today approved compromise; amount not yet known.
Orleans Parish schools superintendent to give direct-run schools more autonomy
With only five traditional schools left, new chief is cutting central office staff.
Judge delays city from seizing long-vacant Lake Terrace Shopping Center
Landrieu administration wants to fast-track staffing changes at 911 center
But Communication District officials say it will be hard to make the Jan. 1. deadline.
Equity, transparency undercut by holdouts against OneApp school admissions process
It's time to level the playing field and provide a uniform application process for all OPSB charters.
See state Rep. Walt Leger at our Breakfast with the Newsmakers event
Join us at 8 a.m. June 18.
Most school lights in New Orleans are still broken despite city’s efforts
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.
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.
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?
SciTech charter leader let students take tests for each other and at home
Network administrators don't believe lapses happened with critical state tests.
