Interim team hired to run Algiers charter group finances as budget process looms
Decision made to seek bids for maintenance and custodial services. Board member urges special effort to attract disadvantaged contractors.
Live blog: City Council approves rezoning for Holy Cross development
Council voted 5-1 after impassioned comments from the community.
Ben Franklin board president: Extent of teachers’ complaints was unknown before union drive
The school's teachers want to join a union due to complaints about pay and contract renewals.
Funding cutoffs bedevil FirstLine budgeting; parking is a concern at new campus
Green Charter leaders pleased to report that all graduating eighth-graders got into college prep schools, with three of them enrolling at Franklin.
New measurements show sea level rise swallowing Grand Isle at record rate
The risks associated with a rising sea level will only increase if greenhouse gas emissions are not brought under control, scientists assert.
KIPP plans 10 percent enrollment hike; vows to uphold Common Core even if state sacks it
“That’s the right thing for kids. That’s a bar we want to set for our kids. We want our kids to write like that; we want our kids to read like that, and we want them to understand math like that." — Todd Purvis
Despite generally good salaries, 85% of faculty at Ben Franklin is said to favor unionizing
The effort to unionize teachers at the city's top public high school comes to culmination next week. School leader Timothy Rusnak's discretion over who gets paid what has been a hot topic since the organizing drive began. Rusnak says it gives him leverage in bidding for the services of the best teachers.
Live blog: Lawmakers to vote on two Landrieu-backed taxes Wednesday
Committee to deal with cigarette tax in morning; House to debate hotel tax in afternoon.
Hynes to start work on new playgrounds; student recycling lauded by Global Green
“They come into our office and the teacher’s lounge and fuss at us if we don’t empty out the water bottles,” principal Michelle Douglas said.
Holy Cross condo plan: Are we already abandoning post-Katrina reforms?
The community senses that its input, including a 74-page argument to uphold currently legal height limits, is losing ground to an overblown development scheme.
