Parents will get to ride buses with students for the opening day of school Monday.
New Orleans public schools, including charters, get water for free up to a certain limit.
A local levee authority has offered to hold off on some of its lawsuit against oil and gas companies if the state can get the industry to discuss voluntarily paying for damage. But the comments by the Flood Protection Authority and the Jindal administration don't signal much movement on their key disagreement.
New Beginnings charter system's personnel turmoil continues.
With tropical wave threatening the Gulf, early storm protection is activated — but not whole system.
Now that the charter movement has matured in New Orleans, there are fewer opportunities to grow.
About 75 percent of last year's students will return this year.
The office has shrunk since it was created in 2011. It's now at four people, which the city plans to maintain.
Baltimore's experience with the Inner Harbor redevelopment is a cause for concern in New Orleans.
They questioned why the board acted alone and and suggested that it's acting outside of its legal authority.