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Posted inCharter Schools, Schools
Transportation deal brings new flexibility, raises funding questions
At their August 9 meeting, the board governing New Orleans Science and Math High School learned of positive increases in both enrollment numbers and year-end net assets. Last minute changes to the school’s transportation and food service providers were also announced. Claire Jecklin, Director of Academics, briefed the board on the latest enrollment figures for the upcoming school year, […]
Posted inCharter Schools, Schools
Enrollment near capacity for start date; school-provided lunch to be offered
According to Jean-Jacques Grandiere, General Director of Lycee Francais de la Nouvelle Charter School, everything is in order for the August 13 start-date of the 2012-13 school year. That includes, for the first time, a school-provided lunch. Members of the charter school’s board announced that Revolution Foods, contracted through KIPP food service, had been chosen to […]
Posted inCriminal Justice
Mayoral panel studying OPP size to get new projections Monday
Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s Criminal Justice Working Group will meet Monday at City Hall for the first time since Oct. 19. The meeting will feature testimony from James Austin, President of the JFA Institute, a national prison-research think tank that has been advising city leaders about prison issues since 2010. The meeting is scheduled for 1:30 […]
Posted inOpinion
The Lens retracts opinion piece regarding St. Claude Ave. parkettes
The Lens is retracting and apologizing to Candy Chang for an opinion piece about “parkettes” on St. Claude Avenue that appeared in this space Thursday. The article contended that Chang, the co-founder of the design company Civic Center, is pushing an effort to build “parkettes” along St. Claude Avenue. This is not true. Civic Center […]
Posted inInside the News Room
Missed the public forum on journalism? Replay it here
If you weren’t able to attend the New Orleans Coalition on Open Governance’s Wednesday night forum or catch it live on our site, we’re happy to offer it to you here.
Posted inLand Use, Opinion
Does anybody really want ‘parkettes’ along the St. Claude corridor?
A San Francisco parkette (a.k.a. “parklet”) appears to have devolved to largely commercial use by adjacent shopkeepers. photo: Mark Hogan/creative commons Editor’s note, Aug. 10: The Lens has retracted and apologized for the story that appears below. A key component of this opinion piece is that Civic Center co-founder Candy Chang is driving a process […]
Posted inCharter Schools, Schools
Board frets that rival schools may poach students – especially fifth-graders
Board members are concerned that families will move their children to other schools before the fall term starts, now that Success Prep has fallen into the “academically unacceptable” category, based on its school performance score for 2011. The school is one of nearly 30 run by the Recovery School District in New Orleans that has […]
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Land Use, Squandered Heritage
St. Charles Avenue mansion: Another one bites the dust?
There have been cycles in the destruction of St. Charles Avenue, and we may be on the brink of a new one. The city’s most famous boulevard was once largely residential almost all the way from Uptown to Lee Circle, though you wouldn’t know it from the proliferation of Burger Kings and Speedy Oil Change […]