The program rewarded teachers based solely on improvements in their students' test scores. In all, five teachers received more than $24,000 apiece, totaling $167,669 — nearly half the allotment available to all New Beginnings staff. But the highest payouts were offered only to those in high-stakes grades. School leader says she's working on a new formula.
CEO Kathy Riedliner said that $14 million will go to stabilize the Freret Street campus, and $3.5 million will be spent at Willow Street.
BESE members Kira Orange Jones and Lottie Beebe indicated they were just becoming familiar with the depth of the anti-merger outcry.
The governor's broad-brush explanation lacked details to determine who would pay more.
This is the first time the plan will have been outlined in public.
Education officials have pressed forward with plans to merge two high schools in Algiers over protests from the community. The Algiers Charter School Association has overruled the desires of two schools to return to Orleans Parish oversight. Are charters as responsive to the community as they were envisioned?
As she prepares to become CEO over both schools, current Einstein principal Shawn Toranto declines to name her successor just yet.
John Sens, who used to be purchasing director, admits to taking kickbacks for rigging contract bids.
But the board appears poised to hold CEO interviews behind closed doors.
