Soaring flood insurance rates threaten to wash away property values, tax base
The good news: A national coalition is tackling the flood insurance crisis, and Congress appears to be responding.
NET Charter gets $250,000 grant
Walton Foundation provides financial breathing room to alternative school.
Choice Foundation re-elects entire board in meeting without public notice
The board moved its meeting up a day without notifying the public.
Bus rides are shorter this year for ENCORE students
School switched bus companies this year and is pleased with the change.
Live blog: Mayor Landrieu holds final public meeting on 2014 city budget Wednesday
Join us at 6 p.m. to follow the action.
Emboldened by legislative success, Fiscal Hawks strengthen ties with Democrats
Key Democratic leaders attended a Fiscal Hawks meeting last weekend in New Orleans.
The O’Keefe/Letten dust-up at Tulane: more there than sound and fury?
O'Keefe may be a whack job — or "spud," as Jim Letten puts it — but some of his insinuations about prosecutorial misconduct are worth a second look.
Karr, Harte schools have more students than they predicted
Enrollment increase will mean more money from state in per-pupil funding.
Jindal’s ’64-Parish Tour’ seen as effort to raise sagging public approval numbers
Gov. Bobby Jindal is traveling the state signing bills, announcing plant expansions and inaugurating infrastructure projects. He calls the travel business as usual. Pundits, however, see it as calculated to shore up his home base ahead of a likely 2016 presidential run.
Lagniappe Academies seeks refund for water bills it paid
The water system stopped billing schools after Katrina, but the school was charged nearly $9,000.
