The board that governs Dr. Martin Luther King Charter School and Joseph Craig Elementary will be meeting today at noon at 1617 Caffin Ave. The meeting agenda was posted on the school’s website and is available here.
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Live blog: Orleans Parish School board may cancel contracts with top 2 administrators
And board member Woody Koppel questions why the board is not planning to authorize financing for school construction.
Posted inCharter Schools
Lycée leaders to meet with French council amid parent concerns
Parents say they are worried about the school’s commitment to French curriculum.
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Crescent Leadership Academy board meets by phone but lacks quorum
Students from the new charter school recently played their first basketball game, but the school’s education director says record attendance was a bigger accomplishment for the fledgling alternative school.
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Holy Cross community looks askance at proposed riverfront towers
A developer has proposed two 13-story, 135-foot high apartment buildings, significantly higher than the 75-foot maximum desired by the neighborhood association.
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Audubon’s Carrollton campus awaits word on move to McDonogh 7 building
Parents and teachers at Audubon Charter School are awaiting word about when and if their upper grades will be moving out of the old Carrollton courthouse. Orleans Parish school officials are readying the old McDonogh 7 building, but say even that probably would be a temporary fix.
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Report: Lycée charter school needs new CEO and board members
Lycée Français de la Nouvelle-Orleans charter school needs a new chief executive and new board members. That’s according to a report released Sunday by Jeremy Hunnewell, a management consultant hired by the Louisiana Association of Public Charter Schools to help the school overcome political and financial turmoil that has plagued it in the last year. […]
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Lycée announces special Monday night board meeting
The board for Lycée Français de la Nouvelle-Orleans charter school has announced a special board meeting to be held Monday at 6:30 p.m. at the school, 5951 Patton St. Mike Pinkerton, a volunteer who is helping the school manage public records requests, told The Lens that the board expects to receive a report detailing the findings of […]
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King charter board refuses to release agendas in advance, scolds reporter
Board attorney makes race-based remark after Lens reporter points out lack of compliance with open-meetings law.
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Now in our fourth year, The Lens has new website, office, funding
A site that’s easier to view on phones and tablets, a new daily news roundup, more than $1 million in new pledges.