Prison disposed of expired drug that was to be used March 7, and drug maker prohibits new sales for executions.
Posted inSchools
You want local, elected school boards? Charter-based voting would do it
Other states are pioneering different ways of bringing electoral control to charter school management. Would they work here?
Posted inCharter Schools
Citizens Committee for Education releases Jan. 6 board meeting agenda
The board oversees Home A. Plessy Community School.
Posted inLand Use
Appeals court orders city to remove fence blocking Newcomb Boulevard
The ruling ends a years-long battle over the illegal closure of an Uptown street.
Posted inGovernment & Politics
Michael Bagneris raises $220,000 in bid to replace Mayor Mitch Landrieu
But Landrieu still has more than $1 million to spend.
Posted inGovernment & Politics
Despite public funding, NOLA for Life Fund grantmaking to continue in private
Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s administration says that it controls the source of its NOLA for Life Fund money, which it hands off to a private foundation to disburse. The Landrieu administration says the grantmaking doesn’t have to occur in public, but other nonprofits have been told they must let the public observe discussions about spending taxpayer dollars.
Posted inLand Use, Opinion
This time the city needs to get St. Roch Market right — a lot depends on it
Food expert Darlene Wolnik offers insights on the place of a public market in the renewal of a neighborhood.
Posted inCharter Schools
Carver students, parents protest schools’ discipline policies at December board meeting
“They talk to us like fifth-graders and we’re ninth-graders,” said one student.
Posted inCharter Schools
Crescent City Schools board loosens rules on midyear budget adjustments
But the board didn’t comply with state law when it failed to solicit public comment before two votes.
Posted inCharter Schools
With bump from F to D, Singleton wins charter renewal for three more years
The James M. Singleton Charter School had its charter with the state renewed for another three years after improving its state accountability score from an F to a D.