But RSD official says all Type 5 charters have to pay about $90 per student for school property insurance. With $17,438 in charges so far, Morris Jeff documents show the school is on track to spend more than five times what it projected in property insurance expenses for the year.
The board will renegotiate its contract with Stan Smith. Kathleen Padian keeps her contract.
Two New Orleans charter schools have looked into cheating allegations in the past year. The Lens wants to see how widespread such allegations are and finally has the documentation that for two months was withheld by the state Department of Education, citing privacy concerns.
And board member Woody Koppel questions why the board is not planning to authorize financing for school construction.
Parents say they are worried about the school's commitment to French curriculum.
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.
A developer has proposed two 13-story, 135-foot high apartment buildings, significantly higher than the 75-foot maximum desired by the neighborhood association.
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.
