Choice Foundation, which runs the Esperanza Charter, Lafayette Academy, and McDonogh 42 schools, held its 2012-2013 budget hearing in addition to its monthly board meeting on May 30. The initial 2012-2013 budget is $18,562,980, a 41 percent increase from last year. Most of the increase comes from the addition of McDonogh 42 under the foundation’s […]
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Sci Academy board's budget anticipates adding new schools, students
The budget for the Collegiate Academies of New Orleans, the board that operates Sci Academy, remains flat for the upcoming school year compared to 2011-2012, coming in at around $3.6 million. The budget for the 2012-2013 school year includes projections for two new schools opening on the Carver campus and anticipates a 60-student increase in enrollment. […]
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Officials look into leasing options; frontloaded payment cause of concern
New Orleans Military and Maritime Academy is negotiating two leasing agreements with officials in Federal City. The school’s board discussed the potential arrangement, along with other matters, at its May meeting. NOMMA’s currently housed at Murray Henderson Elementary School on L.B. Landry Avenue. School leaders are in talks to eventually move to a new school […]
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Treme charter group terminates 45 employees; all employees to leave by August
At its May meeting, the board that now runs McDonogh 42 Elementary Charter School ratified the termination of 45 of the closing charter’s employees, voting to extend employment through the summer months for only eight employees. The charter operator that oversees the school, the Treme Charter School Association, did not have its charter renewed for […]
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Bill could end TP’s longtime hold on lucrative legal-notice ads
A bill passed by both houses of the Louisiana Legislature and now on its way to the governor’s desk could end The Times-Picayune’s decades-long monopoly on publishing the lucrative mandatory legal notices from public agencies. Clarification: The bill and this story refers only to state-required judicial notices issued by various agencies, a substantial subset of […]
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Hynes releases 2012-2013 budget for public review
The Edward Hynes Board of Directors has released the school’s 2012-2013 budget for public review. View it here.
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Kelly resigns; Grandiere appointed to permanent top spot
After much controversy, embattled Lycée Francais board member, Allen Kelly, has resigned from his post. The board of Lycée Francais accepted Kelly’s resignation at a specially called June 1 board meeting. It also appointed the school’s interim general director, Jean-Jacques Grandiere, to the general director position. After the public release of an email Kelly wrote […]
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Documentary on culture of death gives city's youth a voice
On Tuesday at 5:45p.m., a 10-year old boy was shot in the face and leg at his birthday party. Bullets sprayed the gathering at Simon Bolivar Avenue and Clio Street, killing a 5-year old girl and a 33-year old woman. A few hours earlier, two assailants had robbed and killed a 58-year old man in […]
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McDonogh 42 delays move until 2013; test score results show gains
McDonogh 42 Elementary Charter School, the Choice Foundation’s soon-to-be acquired charter, will remain at its current location for the 2012-2013 school year, the Choice Foundation’s board announced at a second May gathering. McDonogh will be under the control of its current charter operator, the Treme Charter School Association, until July. The state Board of Elementary […]
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Einstein budget set for modest increase
Einstein Charter School’s preliminary 2012-13 operating budget of $4.4 million is within 1 percent of last year’s budget. The budget was available for public review this week at the school. Business manager Doug Guidry said the preliminary budget is based on an estimated school enrollment of 443, as determined by the Orleans Parish School Board. […]