Review the spreadsheet data here (pdf).
Posted inInside the News Room
Veteran editor and reporter joins The Lens for watchdog coverage
The Lens announces the addition of Steve Myers to its staff as deputy managing editor and senior staff writer. Myers will help guide The Lens’ development and digital strategy, ensuring that The Lens uses the latest tools and technology to conduct its public-interest journalism. Myers has experience in database analysis, environmental reporting and traditional follow-the-money […]
Posted inCharter Schools, Schools
Music and arts-based start-up ready to open the curtain under OPSB direction
Encore Academy, one of the first charter schools approved by the Orleans Parish School Board since the board chartered the bulk of its schools following Hurricane Katrina, is ready for the 2012-2013 school year, board members announced Tuesday at their monthly meeting. The type-one charter school, which shares an Uptown campus with the new state-of-the-art Crocker Arts and […]
Posted inCharter Schools, Schools
Board discusses dissolution of old group, chartering of new school
At their July meeting, board members of Crescent City Schools discussed best practices for dissolving the nonprofit that ran Akili Academy this year. They also discussed their intent to charter Paul Habans Elementary School for the 2013-2014 year. Akili Academy’s nonprofit board of directors is dissolving because Akili Academy is now run by Crescent City, […]
Posted inGovernment & Politics
Council vows to keep closer eye on Algiers Development District
New Orleans City Council members said Thursday they will more closely monitor the spending of the Algiers Economic Development District, which benefits from about $1.5 million annually in financial support from the city. The remarks came during a joint meeting of the council’s Budget, Audit and Board of Review committees. A critical report from the […]
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Schools
State lifts OPSB financial status; will charters remain wary?
The Orleans Parish School Board has finally escaped a state designation that has stigmatized it for the past eight years. Its financial status is no longer deemed “high-risk,” board president Thomas Robichaux announced Thursday. The state Department of Education first slapped the high-risk label on the School Board in 2004, after the then-bankrupt district was […]
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Land Use, Squandered Heritage
Sometimes you win; sometimes the game is delayed by rain
Checking back in on a couple of stories we’ve been monitoring, it seems that, while some things change, some stay the same. The story about the front yard at 4136 Bienville that – without benefit of city permits – was paved over to make a four-car parking pad brought in a lot of reader comments, […]
Posted inCharter Schools, Schools
Budget increase of 8 percent matched by rising revenues; $230,000 cushion
Directors of Edgar P. Harney Elementary have approved a budget for 2012-13 that rises by 8 percent, board members disclosed at their budget hearing, July 30. The board laid out its projected budget at a public hearing on July 30 and then immediately approved it. The public was notified of the hearing in the July […]
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Board meeting agenda released
View the N.O. SCI High board meeting agenda here.