The governor would have to raise about $3 billion a year in order to abolish income taxes in Louisiana. As his administration figures out how to fill that gap, business groups are warning against raising sales taxes too high or wiping out their own tax exemptions.
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Warren Easton the most famous high school in the U.S.?
Warren Easton Charter Board President David J. Garland said the attention brought to the school by Sandra Bullock might have made it “the most famous high school in the United States,” at least at the moment.
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Students’ food and shelter among Lagniappe board concerns
With nearly all of its 130 students qualifying for the federally funded free and reduced price lunch program, Lagniappe Academies this year entered into a contract with Revolution Food to provide fresh foods and whole grains to a population of children that often go without.
Posted inLand Use
Two years after city funds Lake Terrace, owner behind on taxes
In a press release issued last week, Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s administration prided itself on a recent decision by Judge Lloyd J. Medley Jr. to uphold fines imposed on a taxpayer financed developer who has failed to bring a lakefront strip mall back into commerce years after Katrina damaged it. The city lauded the ruling as […]
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John McDonogh charter board meeting explodes in tears and anger
A crowd of about 50 showed up for the charter board meeting. photo: Della Hasselle John McDonogh High School’s charter board cut short its monthly meeting Tuesday night after a shouting match erupted between board members and an audience of about 50, including teachers, students and neighborhood activists. Snippets of video promoting the Oprah Winfrey Network’s […]
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Einstein opts for OneApp, fine-tunes plan for takeover of Intercultural Charter
Einstein Charter School’s board of directors met Tuesday night to proceed with plans to take over operation of Intercultural Charter School.
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Moton’s board to meet today
Robert Moton Charter School’s board is expected to meet today at 12:30 p.m., at 3374 Gentilly Blvd.
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NOCP leaders prepare to assume control of Crocker
Four weeks since the Recovery School District formally announced its plan to put New Orleans College Prep’s management team in charge of the struggling Crocker Arts & Technology School, leaders at New Orleans College Prep are making arrangements to expand.
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Free expression or feds’ folly: Comment-gate likely to widen
Have other courthouse insiders posted inappropriate comments on NOLA.com?
Posted inCriminal Justice
Pretrial program gets at least a temporary stay of execution
Rumors that the city’s pretrial assessment program met its demise Friday at the hands of Criminal Court judges turn out to be exaggerated.
In fact, the program, run by the New York-based Vera Institute of Justice, is up and running at the Orleans Parish jail at least through the end of the month and perhaps well beyond that.