As its takeover of Pride College Prep looms, ARISE Academy’s board and school administrators met with Recovery School District officials to discuss facilities and operational/contractual questions at its monthly meeting, Jan. 16.
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OneApp poses challenges for specialized military school
As a specialized military charter requiring all of its students to enroll in the JROTC program, New Orleans Military and Maritime Academy would like to participate in Orleans Parish’s new OneApp centralized system, the school’s top two administrators said during the school’s Jan. 10 board meeting.
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NET Charter leaders seek a fair way to grade alternative schools
Louisiana’s new school accountability standards have alternative schools like NET Charter High School looking for different ways to be judged and remain open.
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Akili students to move out of modular classes and into 9th Ward
Akili Academy students next year will say goodbye to modular classrooms in Gentilly and hello to a renovated school building in the Upper 9th Ward.
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How the news of Ray Nagin’s federal indictment unfolded
Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin was indicted Friday on 21 charges of corruption. Here’s how the news developed online:
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Few details so far on how Jindal would pay for income tax cut
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.
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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 […]