Only two charter-management organizations out of original four still interested in opening high school for 2016-17.
Posted inCharter Schools, Schools
After confusing vote last month, New Beginnings keeps its four schools with RSD
The vote went against a recommendation of the administration to seek a waiver for one ineligible school.
Posted inEnvironment, Investigations
Louisiana’s moon shot: A look at the state’s historic gamble to save the coast
The state hopes to save its rapidly disappearing coast with a 50-year, $50 billion plan based on science that’s never been tested and money it doesn’t have. What could go wrong?
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Opinion
Toadying to the Tea Party: Louisiana kids and the politics of the Common Core
To Marc Morial it’s simply “reprehensible” that politicians are putting their electoral ambitions ahead of Louisiana’s kids, indeed the state itself.
Posted inEnvironment
St. Bernard’s rejection of flood-protection tax could ripple across east bank
Voters rejected a 67 percent increase in a tax that funds flood protection.
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Schools
Voters approve tax extension to maintain New Orleans schools
Over time, an existing tax will be shifted to a fund to maintain school buildings.
Posted inGovernment & Politics
Track U.S. Senate, New Orleans races tonight with our live election map
See where Bill Cassidy got the most support in his upset of Sen. Mary Landrieu. We’re also tracking the two Orleans Parish judicial races and the school tax.
Posted inSchools
Voters to decide whether to extend existing tax in order to maintain schools
Check back here Saturday night for precinct-by-precinct results on the citywide school tax.
Posted inLand Use, Opinion
Decline and fall: Emperor Jindal as the ancient Romans might have seen him
Our government serves the interests of corporations over common people, much as the Caesars concentrated power within their bloodline alone.
Posted inSchools
School-tax vote Saturday comes even as some don’t know who controls schools
On Saturday, New Orleans voters will decide whether to invest as much as $150 million dollars into maintaining public school facilities through a property tax — but at key moments in the past week, important players don’t seem to know exactly who’s in charge of the buildings.