State flags standardized test problems at 17 New Orleans schools in 2012-13
Most of the problems were small-scale plagiarism, according to a report.
Councilmember Kristin Palmer to be guest speaker at upcoming Newsmakers event
Lens reporter Charles Maldonado will conduct an interview with Councilwoman Palmer starting at 8 a.m., followed by an audience Q-and-A.
Transplant’s dream of urban farming imperiled by zoning, rising land prices
A would-be farmer from Chicago worries that she has arrived too late to till New Orleans' soils.
RSD’s school closure process has uneven effect on students at failing schools
Based on 2013 test scores, are the students who left the Recovery School District’s four failing schools in better academic environments than before? If they left Mays and Henderson, they generally are. But not if they left Abramson and Johnson.
Killer gets new execution date, but state might not have lethal-injection drug then
Prison disposed of expired drug that was to be used March 7, and drug maker prohibits new sales for executions.
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?
Citizens Committee for Education releases Jan. 6 board meeting agenda
The board oversees Home A. Plessy Community School.
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.
Michael Bagneris raises $220,000 in bid to replace Mayor Mitch Landrieu
But Landrieu still has more than $1 million to spend.
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.
