Around a dozen students at The NET Charter High School are earning credit this summer by exploring the Louisiana outdoors. The alternative high school operates on a year round schedule. However, with fewer students and more adults available in the summer, the school has more leeway for creative, diverse learning, according to Principal Elizabeth Ostberg. […]
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Lycée schedules hearing on $3.7 million budget
Last fall the charter school’s board was forced to cut more than $200,000 after discovering it had begun the year approximately $85,000 in debt.
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New Beginnings charter board changes tune on public input during meetings
Less than a month after slighting public comment in a packed board meeting, the New Beginnings Schools Foundation publicly addressed the state’s open meetings law at its meeting Tuesday. “Is there any public comment?” board chairman Tim Ryan said as he opened the meeting. If this had been June 6, that would have been the […]
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Some board members are concerned with takeover of Pride College Prep
Member concerned that as Arise Academy takes over school in July, it may assume some liabilities as well
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Crescent Leadership board adopts budget, adds two new members
Helen Berrigan chosen board president, Marlon Ford as vice president
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Opaque process used to dole out grant money in NOLA for Life homicide-reduction effort
In touting his reforms to the process of awarding city money, Mayor Mitch Landrieu has repeatedly said, “It’s not about who you know. It’s about what you know.” But when it comes to determining how $500,000 was given out through the NOLA for Life Fund, the public knows very little. The city set it up was involved in picking the grantees, but it’s shielded from typical public scrutiny and accountability because a private foundation administers it.
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Committee may propose pick for new Lycée interim CEO at Thursday meeting
Committee will hold closed session, then may decide on a CEO candidate to present to the full board of directors.
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Media hypocrisy and the n-word: Was Paula Deen fired for her sins or ours?
Multi-generational white Southerners are not any more racist than racists in Colorado, New Jersey, or the new Florida of George Zimmerman.
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New board of directors readies to take over two Algiers charter schools
Harte and Karr will now be run by InspireNOLA instead of the Algiers Charter Schools Association
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$616,000 surplus predicted for First Line schools budget this year
Per pupil funding is increased after Orleans Parish School Board recalculation