Also, the school's draft $16 million budget for 2014. Lusher will dip into its substantial reserves to cover a $641,000 deficit, which LeCesne attributed to both rising costs and sinking revenues
They're talking about scaling back tax exemptions and cutting spending to make up about $500 million.
The alternative school has more special education students than it has received funding for, a school leader says.
Meanwhile, the Dryades YMCA is suing Ellis Construction for water damage to the gymnasium flooring and damage to a buried chiller pipe, leaders say.
The church will serve as a temporary location until the school settles at the Fisk-Howard Elementary School site at 211 South Lopez St.
According to a document obtained by The Lens, the shuttered, 33-story World Trade Center would be demolished, and a towering sculpture and a park – meant to become a tourism icon for the city of New Orleans — would be built in its place at the foot of Canal Street.
A new study trumpeting the economic impact of the game doesn't mention the tax breaks.
Next year, the organization will take over Paul Habans Elementary School, so most hiring efforts have been focused on Habans.
A bill pending in the Legislature would authorize a $185 million expansion of the Convention Center, financing of a private hotel, and conversion of the World Trade Center site to a riverfront park. Mayor Mitch Landrieu envisions an attraction on par with the Gateway Arch in St. Louis.
Volunteers envision their work as “an opportunity for children to participate in the process of improving their own communities and receive art instruction in the process.”
